From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Spaces not allowed in directory names in .git/info/attributes
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 13:30:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmvng8qle.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO8RVveOwrS6+pTnHY36d1Nk_B_VJD022W9i8STnNb-KyMkqNg@mail.gmail.com> (Nathan Collins's message of "Mon, 23 May 2016 12:06:27 -0700")
Nathan Collins <nathan.collins@gmail.com> writes:
> Example session:
>
> $ git init test.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/test.git/.git/
> $ cd test.git
> $ mkdir "dir name"
> $ touch dir\ name/file.txt
> $ echo "dir\\ name/file.txt -text -whitespace" >> .git/info/attributes
> $ git add dir\ name/file.txt
> name/file.txt is not a valid attribute name: .git/info/attributes:1
That's because spaces are not allowed in paths there.
echo "dir?name/file.txt -text" >.git/info/attributes
may be an easy workaround for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 19:06 [BUG?] Spaces not allowed in directory names in .git/info/attributes Nathan Collins
2016-05-23 20:30 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-05-24 1:37 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-05-24 22:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-25 21:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-05-24 23:30 ` Nathan Collins
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