From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:40:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C style Message-ID: <7v8w13r756.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <15C4C111-824D-4657-B034-A1BE1DAD50D4@sb.org> Kevin Ballard writes: > Would this actually break any existing setups? The only ones that are affected > are ones beginning with ", which I imagine would be rather rare. No regression policy means just that. We try not to break "rather rare" people, only to add support for different kinds of "rather rare" setups, especially when the latter have working workarounds.