From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:44:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensions
Message-ID: <4E56DE59.5050601@sunshineco.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110825210654.GA11077@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 08/25/2011 05:06 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:00:51PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>
>>> Also, any other extensions that would go into such a list? I have no
>>> idea what the common extension is for something like pascal or csharp.
>>
>> C# uses extension ".cs".
>>
>> ".cpp" is common, in fact often required, by Windows compilers.
>
> Thanks, added both to my list.

To clarify, I meant to say that for C++, .cpp is common/required on Windows.

>> What about ".h" and ".hpp"?
>
> How well do our cpp patterns do with header files? I imagine they're
> better than the default, but I don't think I've ever really tried
> anything tricky.

I scanned through a number of revisions for one of my long-running C++ 
projects comparing the diff of header files with and without "*.h 
diff=cpp". In some header files in this project, the oft-used C++ 
keywords public:, protected:, and private: appear at start-of-line. In 
such cases, the default diff emits a less-than-useful hunk header:

     @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ public:

whereas, "diff=cpp" emits:

     @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ class Foobar

-- ES