From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:15:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] userdiff: allow * between cpp funcname words
Message-ID: <7vfwgxflkv.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201112062117.57690.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Actually (sadly) I'll have to revise it.  It doesn't match much of C++
> either, and I haven't yet come up with a reasonable regex that
> matches, say,
>
>   foo::Bar<int>::t& Baz::operator<<(
>
> which I would call ludicrous, but it's valid C++.

Heh, I'd rather not see us go that route, which would either end up
implementing a C++ parser or reverting the heuristics back to "non-blank
at the beginning of the line" that was already reasonably useful.