From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:48:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/WIP] attr: make attributes depend on file type
Message-ID: <7v39n8jbj2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110228173037.GC24915@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The only downside is that it is technically a regression if somebody was
> using gitattributes for the bizarrely named file "symlink:". It seems
> pretty unlikely, but possibly we should be carving out a syntactic
> namespace like:
>
>   ^[a-z]+:
>
> or even:
>
>   ^[a-z]+(=[^:]*)?:

Or even '^:[a-z]+(=[^,=])?(,[a-z]+(=[^,=])?)*:' to

 (1) always have some special character at the beginning, to limit the
     extent of the damage to existing funny pathnames (i.e. to collide
     your pathname must begin with such a special character).  This also
     has a nice side effect of making it clear that something special is
     going on; and

 (2) allow more than one such special on the line, comma-separated.

But that is just a small bikeshed.  Other than that, I like what Michael
and you are aiming for (I am only commenting on the general direction at
this moment, as I haven't looked at the patch at all yet).