From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 21:56:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Spaces not allowed in directory names in .git/info/attributes
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In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DXW-K-iNO65yuzMLPZS_8+R1gsQgNftwei1XUZNxhicg@mail.gmail.com>

Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> Maybe bring back [1] (cquoting paths) and optionally optionally with
> backslash escaping? The conclusion at the end of that thread seems to
> be "ok, we may break rare setups, we just need to be upfront about
> it". Another option is the pathspec way: match quotes literally as
> well.
>
> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160597/focus=160720

I coaxed the ancient patch that was done in the 1.7.2 timeperiod and
will push out the result near the tip of jc/attr topic that has been
cooking in 'pu'.

Thanks.