On 02/06/16 00:52, Stefan Beller wrote: > In our own .gitattributes file we have attributes such as: > > *.[ch] whitespace=indent,trail,space > > When querying for attributes we want to be able to ask for the exact > value, i.e. > > git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space) > > should work, but the commas are used in the attr magic to introduce > the next attr, such that this query currently fails with > > fatal: Invalid pathspec magic 'trail' in > ':(attr:whitespace=indent,trail,space)' > > This change allows escaping characters by a backslash, such that the query > > git ls-files :(attr:whitespace=indent\,trail\,space)
Not having given this much thought at all, but the question which comes to mind is: can you use some other separator for the <attr>-s rather than a comma? That way you don't need to quote them in the <value> part of the <attr>-spec. (I dunno, maybe use ; or : instead?) ATB, Ramsay Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
