[PATCH] Demonstrate a bug in --word-diff where diff.*.wordregex is "sticky"

From

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>

Date

Mar 14, 2012, 16:39 UTC

Message-ID

<4F60C9CA.1040109@viscovery.net>

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
---
 What's going on here?

 t/t4034-diff-words.sh |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/t4034-diff-words.sh b/t/t4034-diff-words.sh
index 5c20121..1ad7ab5 100755
--- a/t/t4034-diff-words.sh
+++ b/t/t4034-diff-words.sh
@@ -348,4 +348,37 @@ test_expect_success 'word-diff with no newline at EOF' '
 	word_diff --word-diff=plain
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'setup history with two files' '
+	echo "a b; c" >a &&
+	echo "a b; c" >z &&
+	git add a z &&
+	git commit -minitial &&
+
+	# modify both
+	echo "a bx; c" >a &&
+	echo "a bx; c" >z &&
+	git commit -mmodified -a
+'
+
+test_expect_failure 'wordRegex for the first file does not apply to the second' '
+	echo "a diff=tex" >.gitattributes &&
+	git config diff.tex.wordRegex "[a-z]+|." &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+		diff --git a/a b/a
+		index 9823d38..b09f967 100644
+		--- a/a
+		+++ b/a
+		@@ -1 +1 @@
+		a [-b-]{+bx+}; c
+		diff --git a/z b/z
+		index 9823d38..b09f967 100644
+		--- a/z
+		+++ b/z
+		@@ -1 +1 @@
+		a [-b;-]{+bx;+} c
+	EOF
+	git diff --word-diff HEAD~ >actual
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done

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