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[PATCH v2] Teach git diff about Objective-C syntax

From
Jonathan del Strother <jon.delstrother@bestbefore.tv>
Date
Sep 30, 2008, 23:46 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Add support for recognition of Objective-C class & instance methods, C functions, and class implementation/interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan del Strother <jon.delStrother@bestbefore.tv>
---
This version is much the same, but rebuilt on top of 1883a0d3b to use the extended regexp stuff, and it doesn't attempt to tidy up other patterns.

I've been trying to make the objc-method matching line a bit more specific - I think I'm running into a bug (or more likely a misunderstanding) in the matching process. Every pattern there uses either .*$ or [^;]*$ to match up to the end of a line. But in trying to come up with a whitelist of characters to match up to the end of a line, I couldn't do it : there seems to be an invisible character at the end of the line that I can't match. That is, a line containing just "FUNCNAME" (terminated by a newline) will be matched by the pattern "^(FUNCNAME.$)" but not "^(FUNCNAME$)". Why is this?

 Documentation/gitattributes.txt |    2 ++
 diff.c                          |   10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 2ae771f..2694559 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -315,6 +315,8 @@ patterns are available:
 
 - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language.
 
+- `objc` suitable for source code in the Objective-C language.
+
 - `pascal` suitable for source code in the Pascal/Delphi language.
 
 - `php` suitable for source code in the PHP language.
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index b001d7b..3694602 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -1429,6 +1429,16 @@ static const struct funcname_pattern_entry builtin_funcname_pattern[] = {
 	  "!^[ \t]*(catch|do|for|if|instanceof|new|return|switch|throw|while)\n"
 	  "^[ \t]*(([ \t]*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*){2,}[ \t]*\\([^;]*)$",
 	  REG_EXTENDED },
+	{ "objc",
+	  /* Negate C statements that can look like functions */
+	  "!^[ \t]*(do|for|if|else|return|switch|while)\n"
+	  /* Objective-C methods */
+	  "^[ \t]*([-+][ \t]*\\([ \t]*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9* \t]*\\)[ \t]*[A-Za-z_].*)$\n"
+	  /* C functions */
+	  "^[ \t]*(([ \t]*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z_0-9]*){2,}[ \t]*\\([^;]*)$\n"
+	  /* Objective-C class/protocol definitions */
+	  "^(@(implementation|interface|protocol)[ \t].*)$",
+	  REG_EXTENDED },
 	{ "pascal",
 	  "^((procedure|function|constructor|destructor|interface|"
 		"implementation|initialization|finalization)[ \t]*.*)$"
-- 
1.6.0.2.416.g8cab.dirty
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  1. Teach git diff about Objective-C syntaxJonathan del Strother, Sep 16, 2008
  2. Miklos VajnaSep 16, 2008
  3. Teach git diff about Objective-C syntaxJonathan del Strother, Sep 17, 2008
  4. Teach git diff about Objective-C syntaxJonathan del Strother, Sep 17, 2008
  5. Johannes SchindelinSep 17, 2008
  6. Jonathan del StrotherSep 17, 2008
  7. Teach git diff about Objective-C syntaxJonathan del Strother, Sep 17, 2008
  8. Andreas EricssonSep 17, 2008
  9. Jonathan del StrotherSep 17, 2008
  10. Miklos VajnaSep 17, 2008
  11. Jonathan del StrotherSep 17, 2008
  12. Junio C HamanoSep 17, 2008
  13. Jonathan del StrotherSep 17, 2008
  14. Teach git diff about Objective-C syntaxJonathan del Strother, Sep 30, 2008
  15. Brandon CaseyOct 1, 2008
  16. xdiff-interface.c: strip newline (and cr) from line before pattern matchingBrandon Casey, Oct 1, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2008
  18. Jonathan del StrotherOct 2, 2008
  19. Jonathan del StrotherOct 2, 2008
  20. Andreas EricssonSep 18, 2008
  21. Jonathan del StrotherSep 17, 2008
  22. Johannes SchindelinSep 17, 2008
  23. Jonathan del StrotherSep 17, 2008

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