From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:28:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Git bug. gitattributes' pattern does not respect spaces in the filenames
Message-ID: <7vipnwooh1.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111010110221.38e9985a@ashu.dyn.rarus.ru>

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

> 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...