Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy  <[email protected]> writes:

> Commit b0db704652 (pathspec: allow querying for attributes -
> 2017-03-13) adds new pathspec magic 'attr' but only with
> match_pathspec(). "git add" has some pathspec related code that still
> does not know about 'attr' and will bail out:
>
>     $ git add ':(attr:foo)'
>     fatal: BUG:dir.c:1584: unsupported magic 40
>
> A better solution would be making this code support 'attr'. But I
> don't know how much work is needed (I'm not familiar with this new
> magic). For now, let's simply reject this magic with a friendlier
> message:
>
>     $ git add ':(attr:foo)'
>     fatal: :(attr:foo): pathspec magic not supported by this command: 'attr'
>
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email protected]>
> ---
>  Since Brandon is currently unreachable, let's do this for now.

Thanks.  This certainly make it better than the status quo.

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