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

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Aug 26, 2011, 15:33 UTC
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On 08/25/2011 09:45 PM, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:29:36PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:
> 
>>> Also, any other extensions that would go into such a list?
>>
>> *.bib diff=bibtex
>> *.tex diff=tex
> 
> I had those ones already. ;P
Indeed.  I must be blind, I skipped right over them.
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>> *.[Ff] diff=fortran
>> *.[Ff][0-9][0-9] diff=fortran
> 
> Thanks, I'll add those. I don't see a big problem with generalizing
> f[0-9][0-9] to always be fortran, even though many of those numbers
> aren't used. I don't think I've ever seen one used for anything else.
> 
> Should all of our matches be case-insensitive? That is, should we be
> matching both .HTML and .html? Clearly lowercase is the One True Way,
> but I don't know what kind of junk people with case-insensitive
> filesystems have, or whether we should even worry about it.

For the fortran case, Gnu fortran actually processes the files differently depending on whether the f is capitalized (it preprocesses or not). So there is a functional reason for using a capital letter.

For the others, I don't know. Do people still create files named .HTML or is that just a relic of the past? I can't really think of a strong argument for or against matching insensitively.

-Brandon
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  1. Boaz HarroshAug 25, 2011
  2. Jeff KingAug 25, 2011
  3. attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensionsJeff King, Aug 25, 2011
  4. Eric SunshineAug 25, 2011
  5. Jeff KingAug 25, 2011
  6. Boaz HarroshAug 25, 2011
  7. Eric SunshineAug 25, 2011
  8. Jeff KingAug 26, 2011
  9. Brandon CaseyAug 25, 2011
  10. Jeff KingAug 26, 2011
  11. Eric SunshineAug 26, 2011
  12. Brandon CaseyAug 26, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2011
  14. Jeff KingAug 26, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2011
  16. Thomas RastAug 26, 2011
  17. Alexey ShumkinAug 27, 2011
  18. Junio C HamanoAug 25, 2011
  19. Boaz HarroshAug 25, 2011
  20. Miles BaderAug 26, 2011
  21. René ScharfeAug 26, 2011
  22. Boaz HarroshAug 26, 2011
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2011

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