On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

At least attr has the same problem and is going the same direction
[1]. Cool. (I actually thought the patch was in and evidence that this
kind of backward compatibility breaking was ok, turns out the patch
has stayed around for years)

[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/%3C20161110203428.30512-18-sbeller@google.com%3E/

Seeing that again, I see this in the proposed log message:

    Full pattern must be quoted. So 'pat"t"ern attr' will give exactly
    'pat"t"ern', not 'pattern'.

I cannot tell what it is trying to say.

It's another (bad) way of saying that quoting must start at the
beginning (so the closing quote must be at the end of pattern, i.e.
the whole pattern is quoted).

The log message may need to be cleaned up.

Yeah. Next time I'll write more or less "Look at Jeff's commit, this
is basically it" when Stephan re-rolls sb/attr
-- 
Duy