From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:13:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fixes bug: git-diff: class methods are not detected in hunk headers for Pascal
Message-ID: <201101041813.45053.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <1293240049-7744-1-git-send-email-zapped@mail.ru>

Zapped wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Zapped <zapped@mail.ru>

As Junio already said, please provide a real name for the sign-off.
But I also found the commit message and content confusing, probably
because I haven't programmed Pascal for 15 years.

You said

  Fixes bug: git-diff: class methods are not detected in hunk headers for Pascal

>  PATTERNS("pascal",
> -	 "^((procedure|function|constructor|destructor|interface|"
> +	 "^(((class[ \t]+)?(procedure|function)|constructor|destructor|interface|"
>  		"implementation|initialization|finalization)[ \t]*.*)$"
>  	 "\n"
>  	 "^(.*=[ \t]*(class|record).*)$",

But the last line very conspicuously already mentions 'class', so why
does it fail?

I had to look up a bit of Pascal syntax.  Google helped with

  http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/ref.html

which answers this.  Also, as stated in SubmittingPatches, we
generally word the messages as stating the behaviour of the changed
version in the present tense.  So a better commit message would be

  userdiff: match Pascal class methods

  Class declarations were already covered by the second pattern, but
  class methods have the 'class' keyword in front too.  Account for
  it.

  Signed-off-by: Алексей Крезов <zapped@mail.ru>

Ok, now I feel silly for only having a two-liner despite my
complaints.

That being said, I have now verified that the patch is good, and, you
can include my

  Acked-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>

in a reroll if you fix the above.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch