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

From
Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com>
Date
May 23, 2016, 19:06 UTC
Message-ID
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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
I'm using
    $ git --version
    git version 2.5.0
Cheers,
-nathan
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