Re: [BUG?] Spaces not allowed in directory names in .git/info/attributes

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

Maybe bring back [1] (cquoting paths) and optionally optionally with
backslash escaping? The conclusion at the end of that thread seems to
be "ok, we may break rare setups, we just need to be upfront about
it". Another option is the pathspec way: match quotes literally as
well.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/160597/focus=160720

I coaxed the ancient patch that was done in the 1.7.2 timeperiod and
will push out the result near the tip of jc/attr topic that has been
cooking in 'pu'.

Thanks.