Re: Git bug. gitattributes' pattern does not respect spaces in the filenames

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 10, 2011, 15:28 UTC
Message-ID: <7vipnwooh1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111010110221.38e9985a@ashu.dyn.rarus.ru>

Alexey Shumkin <Alex.Crezoff@gmail.com> writes:

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> As far as cp1251 and UTF-8 files are in different folders,
> it is logically enough to set pattern like
>
> <folder with a UTF-8-xmls>/*.xml diff=utf8-to-cp1251
>
> for the UTF-8 files.

... IN the directory that needs conversion and not in the other one or at the toplevel. Problem solved, no?

Another idea may be to use "?" in the directory part of the pattern. Unless the directory structure is sick enough to have these directory names:

	dir-1/utf8-file.xml
        dir 1/cp1251-file.xml

dir?1/*.xml would match the matter, so...