From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:03:59 GMT
Subject: Re: .gitattributes escape character?
Message-ID: <F6E88AB2-D512-45A3-87FF-46F2C9ED0092@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinNctmWpshBeSTzZRm6+EJ=Cjdpoaj4Aon+52_b@mail.gmail.com>

On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> 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.

I agree that gitattributes needs to learn about C-style quoting. However, in the
meantime you can just replace a space with ? as it's actually a pattern. In
other words, "test/file with spaces" can be represented as test/file?with?spaces

-Kevin Ballard