Re: [PATCH] attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C style

> Am 11/8/2010 22:56, schrieb Kevin Ballard:
>> Basically what I'm trying to say is, we already break one particular
>> "rather rare" setup. I would love to come up with a solution that supports
>> both setups, but I don't know if one exists outside of using a config
>> variable to control whether git attribute patterns support quoting (a solution
>> I am not particularly fond of for this case).
> 
> Can we perhaps have a pseudo-attribute 'quoted-names' that is to be used
> like this:
> 
> * quoted-names
> "file 1" binary
> file.1 -diff
> 
> Its meaning would be that the remainder of the current .gitattributes file
> is to be parsed with C style path quoting enabled. The glob given with
> this attribute is irrelevant and ignored.
> 
> I didn't check whether old gits would ignore this unknown attribute.