Re: [BUG?] Spaces not allowed in directory names in .git/info/attributes

From: Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com>
Date: May 24, 2016, 23:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAO8RVve07Gvr2Bes2Dp-08_8MSQoVcBm9gjMaKTU=uAXcY_1wQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmvng8qle.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Example session:
>>
>>     $ git init test.git
>>     Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test.git/.git/
>>     $ cd test.git
>>     $ mkdir "dir name"
>>     $ touch dir\ name/file.txt
>>     $ echo "dir\\ name/file.txt -text -whitespace" >> .git/info/attributes
>>     $ git add dir\ name/file.txt
>>     name/file.txt is not a valid attribute name: .git/info/attributes:1
>
> That's because spaces are not allowed in paths there.
>
>         echo "dir?name/file.txt -text" >.git/info/attributes
>
> may be an easy workaround for now.

Thanks, I'll use the workaround,

-nathan