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authorMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2011-08-04 06:36:13 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-04 15:53:15 -0700
commitd42453ab1a482df0fdb428c20de1189a21a2bee1 (patch)
treeccc4a5786dac71f7804576ba93ef1f9e11d83d6e /attr.c
parent650cfc512e189c1af347c9eeaebc0377e0dcb88d (diff)
downloadgit-d42453ab1a482df0fdb428c20de1189a21a2bee1.tar.gz
Remove anachronism from comment
Setting attributes to arbitrary values ("attribute=value") is now supported, so it is no longer necessary for this comment to justify prohibiting '=' in an attribute name. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'attr.c')
-rw-r--r--attr.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index f6b3f7e850..4a1244f9a9 100644
--- a/attr.c
+++ b/attr.c
@@ -50,10 +50,8 @@ static unsigned hash_name(const char *name, int namelen)
static int invalid_attr_name(const char *name, int namelen)
{
/*
- * Attribute name cannot begin with '-' and from
- * [-A-Za-z0-9_.]. We'd specifically exclude '=' for now,
- * as we might later want to allow non-binary value for
- * attributes, e.g. "*.svg merge=special-merge-program-for-svg"
+ * Attribute name cannot begin with '-' and must consist of
+ * characters from [-A-Za-z0-9_.].
*/
if (*name == '-')
return -1;