From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:34:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH 0/5] support --exclude for diff/log commands
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Note that there is also possible notational overlap with the WIP "attr:
> make attributes depend on file type" at
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168116
>
> which suggested something like
>
> :symlink:* diff=symlinkdiffdriverofyourchoice
>
> as a notation for attributes which depend on the file type. Is that a
> problem, should I do something different there? (Also, I still need help
> with that...)

I would do

:{symlink}* diff=symlinkdiffdriverofyourchoice

There's also blank quote problem in gitattr. Tricks like 'hello.world'
would match path 'hello world' but I'd rather have something better.
If ':' is the special char, I could teach gitattr to recognize
<colon>+<quote> as a mark to do C quotation without regressions.
-- 
Duy