Antw: Re: java diffs show no method context

From: Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Apr 26, 2018, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID: <5AE17203020000A10002B5EF@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <aae8d748-101d-1eb2-f8e8-9da2e53e2388@gmail.com>

Hi!

Thanks for that. It sounds plausible, but I wonder why it works automagically for C, but not for Java (Politcal reasons put aside): Using ".c" for C is about as common as using ".java" for Java ;-)

Regards, Ulrich

>>> Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> schrieb am 25.04.2018 um 17:05 in

Nachricht <aae8d748-101d-1eb2-f8e8-9da2e53e2388@gmail.com>:

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> Le 25/04/2018 à 14:53, Ulrich Windl a écrit :
>> Hi!
>> 
>> This is for git 2.13.6, and it may be an FAQ or frequent feature request. 
> Anyway:
>> I'm new to Java, and writing my first project using Git, I found that "git

> diff" only reports the class in the diff context, but not the method (as

seen

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> for C, for example).
>> I'd wish to have the method where the diff is located.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> to achieve this behaviour, you have to create a file named
> ".gitattributes" at the root of your project, containing this line:
> 
> *.java diff=java
> 
> .gitattributes allows you to configure other things, as described in the
> documentation[1].
> 
> I hope it helps.
> 
> [1] https://www.git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes 
> 
> Cheers,
> Alban