From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 04:36:13 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Remove anachronism from comment
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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>
---

diff --git a/attr.c b/attr.c
index f6b3f7e85..4a1244f9a 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;