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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Spaces not allowed in directory names in .git/info/attributes
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 13:30:21 -0700
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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.