From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:40:51 GMT
Subject: Re: How to use git attributes to configure server-side checks?
Message-ID: <7vobybt5bw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110923193341.GA26820@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We do some of this already. For example, textconv will look up each side
> based on its individual filename. But the funcname code, for example
> does this ("one" is the "from" side of the diff, "two" is the "to"
> side):
>
>   pe = diff_funcname_pattern(one);
>   if (!pe)
>           pe = diff_funcname_pattern(two);

What text would we see on the actual hunk header line? I had an impression
that we always take from the preimage. I might be wrong, but if that is
indeed the case, shouldn't we be ignoring the attribute tacked on to the
postimage side altogether?