Re: End-of-line comments are prompted with "is not a valid attribute name"

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

To put it another way, we do not have "end-of-line comment" (i.e. the leading part of a line has payload, but the line is chomped in the middle with a comment character and the remainder of the line is ignored) at all. We have "commented line" (in other words, a line that is totally commented out and gets ignored).

I think it is very clearly documented in "git help attributes":

    A `gitattributes` file is a simple text file that gives
    `attributes` to pathnames.

    Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form:

            pattern attr1 attr2 ...

    That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list,
    separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are
    ignored. Lines that begin with '#' are ignored. Patterns
    that begin with a double quote are quoted in C style.