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Re: Escape character for .gitconfig

From
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Date
Dec 21, 2011, 12:54 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.2.00.1112211352580.17957@ds9.cixit.se>
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Erik Blake:
> As you can see, I'm running git on a Win7 64 machine. Is there any way to 
> escape the brackets? Or do I need to reinstall notepad++ on a different path?

Just use the 8.3 path instead, using either "C:/Progra~1" or "C:/Progra~2" (depending on how the system got installed). You can mix 8.3 and long paths in the same command (so keeping the "Notepad++" component is fine).

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  6. Erik BlakeDec 20, 2011
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  8. Peter KreftingDec 21, 2011
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