From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:20:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/19] Disallow the empty string as an attribute name
Message-ID: <7vlivjo479.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1311689582-3116-5-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Previously, it was possible to have a line like "file.txt =foo" in a
> .gitattribute file, after which an invocation like "git check-attr ''
> -- file.txt" would succeed.  This patch disallows both constructs.

Good. Very much appreciated.

> Currently it is possible to use the empty string as an attribute name.

Yeah, even I wouldn't call it a regression to disallow this ;-).