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| author | Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> | 2017-01-27 18:01:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-02-01 13:46:52 -0800 |
| commit | 860a74d9d909002b16c50b58050908756065125d (patch) | |
| tree | 3bd4f9d838df0ff4882c717eefc01322cead200a /Documentation/gitattributes.txt | |
| parent | 62af896979403c6bcb441ca784121e720b161b30 (diff) | |
| download | git-860a74d9d909002b16c50b58050908756065125d.tar.gz git-860a74d9d909002b16c50b58050908756065125d.tar.xz | |
attr: support quoting pathname patterns in C style
Full pattern must be quoted. So 'pat"t"ern attr' will give exactly
'pat"t"ern', not 'pattern'. Also clarify that leading whitespaces are
not part of the pattern and document comment syntax.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitattributes.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitattributes.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index e0b66c122..3173dee7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt @@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ Each line in `gitattributes` file is of form: pattern attr1 attr2 ... That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, -separated by whitespaces. When the pattern matches the -path in question, the attributes listed on the line are given to -the path. +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. +When the pattern matches the path in question, the attributes +listed on the line are given to the path. Each attribute can be in one of these states for a given path: |