Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ignore trailing spaces in .gitignore

On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 06:48:18AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:

quoted

I guess by quoting you meant:

  echo '"trailing  "' >.gitignore

This makes " special. If we follow shell convention then things
between ".." should be literal (e.g. "*" is no longer a wildcard). We
don't support it yet. So I rather go with backslash as it adds less
code.

For some reason I was thinking that we already handled double-quotes
here (as we do in other places where quoting is optional). But it looks
like we don't currently, so yeah, I don't think it is worth adding due
to the potential confusion.

Backslash-escaping was what I had originally assumed you meant, and it
was, so we are all on the same page (the patch was just broken. ;) ).

-Peff