From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:08:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] Add new git-cc-cmd helper to contrib
Message-ID: <7vip3iz3jn.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3YAq66MrOR5a4ydujKR5+ZNMVV4i=JzPCxLXC244b52g@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

>>> +    File.open(file) do |f|
>>> +      f.each do |line|
>>> +        case line
>>> +        when /^From (\h+) (.+)$/
>>> +          from = $1
>>> +        when /^---\s+(\S+)/
>>> +          source = $1 != '/dev/null' ? $1[2..-1] : nil
>>
>> This may need to be tightened if you want to use this on a
>> real-world project (git.git itself does not count ;-); you may see
>> something like:
>>
>>     diff --git "a/a\"b" "b/a\"b"
>>
>> (I did an insane pathname 'a"b' to get the above example, but a more
>> realistic is a character outside ASCII).
>
> Suggestions on how to do that are welcome.

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