git lfs blows up when a space is present in filename

[kernelsmith]

if I

git lfs track "file/with/a space in it"

all goes well until I do a push or similar, then I get

file/with/a is not a valid attribute name: .gitattributes:1

and manually adding quotes around the file name in .gitattributes doesn't help. This is pretty brutal. Is there a config option or somesuch that enables this behavior. I don't personally use spaces in file names, but some of my users do.

[technoweenie]

Try editing your .gitattributes, using [[:space:]] in place of actual spaces.

file/with/a[[:space:]]space[[:space:]]in[[:space:]]it filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -crlf

This seems to be a limitation in the gitattributes file. But if [[:space:]] works, we can have git lfs track insert it in place of spaces pretty easily.

[kernelsmith]

It's probably clear at this point that [[:space]] did fix the problem. Thanks for that as well as the PR to fix!