Subject: Re: [PATCH] .gitattributes: Enable cpp diff parsing for .[ch] files

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:32:32 +0200

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 13:55 -0700, Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> But this patch is for all the people and distributions that are going
> to use the old git versions for a while, (Years).
> 
> It is important for the Linux mailing-list review, because you get
> patches with:
> 
> @@@ lable out:
> -	change foo
> +	to bazz
> 
> And how the hell are you suppose to know where in the file it is.
> This is such a trivial addition, that can help unify everyone's
> usage. I don't see the down sides.

Ah, I'm using:

# cat ~/.gitconfig 
[diff "default"]
                xfuncname = "^[[:alpha:]$_].*[^:]$"

For this.