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Re: .gitattributes escape character?

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 3, 2010, 15:47 UTC
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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Marc Strapetz <marc.strapetz@syntevo.com> wrote:
> Is there an escape character which may be used in .gitattributes to
> escape e.g. the space-character? Could octal-escaping help here (I
> didn't succeed)? Thanks for any hints.
You mean escape the path part in .gitattributes? Sorry, no.

I think we can teach git about path quoting though. A leading double quote means the path is quoted, C-style.

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Duy
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  17. Marc StrapetzNov 6, 2010
  18. attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C styleNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Nov 7, 2010

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