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>
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;