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Re: [PATCH] attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensions

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 16, 2011, 19:32 UTC
Message-ID
<20111216193253.GD19924@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<A8E08CC616E248EC8F9000DD86F228E0@PhilipOakley>
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 07:26:00PM -0000, Philip Oakley wrote:
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> >+ "*.m diff=objc",
> 
> There is a conflict here with the Matlab community which also uses
> "*.m" files for its scripts and code.
> They fit the "It's not that hard to do, but it's an extra step that
> the user might not even know is an option." rationale.
> 
> If the objc.m is used as a default it must be overidable easily, and
> listed in the appropriate documentation to mitigate the "might not
> even know" risk.

It is easily overridable; just put your own "*.m" (or anything that matches your files) entry into your gitattributes file. I'm more concerned that people will start getting worse results than with the default, and not know how to fix it.

If you have some Matlab files, would you mind doing diffs with the default driver and with the objc driver, and comment on how good or bad the results are?

-Peff
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Message 32 of 35 in “attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensions”
  1. attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensionsJeff King, Dec 16, 2011
  2. Johannes SixtDec 16, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2011
  4. Jeff KingDec 16, 2011
  5. Jeff KingDec 16, 2011
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2011
  7. Jeff KingDec 17, 2011
  8. Johannes SixtDec 16, 2011
  9. Jeff KingDec 17, 2011
  10. Jonathan NiederDec 17, 2011
  11. 1/2 attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensionsJeff King, Dec 19, 2011
  12. Jonathan NiederDec 19, 2011
  13. Jeff KingDec 19, 2011
  14. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 22, 2011
  15. 2/2 attr: drop C/C++ default extension mappingJeff King, Dec 19, 2011
  16. Jonathan NiederDec 19, 2011
  17. Thomas RastDec 19, 2011
  18. t4018: introduce test cases for the internal hunk header patternsBrandon Casey, Dec 19, 2011
  19. t4018: add a few more test cases for cpp hunk header matchingBrandon Casey, Dec 19, 2011
  20. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2011
  21. Brandon CaseyDec 19, 2011
  22. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2011
  23. t4018: introduce test cases for the internal hunk header patternsBrandon Casey, Dec 20, 2011
  24. Jakub NarebskiDec 20, 2011
  25. Brandon CaseyDec 20, 2011
  26. Thomas RastDec 20, 2011
  27. Johannes SixtDec 20, 2011
  28. Junio C HamanoDec 20, 2011
  29. Mark LevedahlDec 16, 2011
  30. Jeff KingDec 16, 2011
  31. Philip OakleyDec 16, 2011
  32. Jeff KingDec 16, 2011
  33. Philip OakleyDec 21, 2011
  34. Jeff KingDec 23, 2011
  35. Junio C HamanoDec 16, 2011

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