Subject: Re: .gitattributes escape character?

From: Marc Strapetz <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:13:05 +0100

>> 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.

But this is not supposed to work already? At least, when quoting the
whole path:

"/a file" -text

git check-attr tells me 'file" is not a valid attribute'.

Marc.