From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:34:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] make diff --color-words customizable
Message-ID: <7vr63atykr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901101239550.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Well, the thing I tried to hint at: it is not good to have a monster 
> patch, as nobody will review it.
>
> In your case, I imagine it would be much easier to get reviewers if you 
> had
>
> 	patch 1/4 refactor color-words to allow for 0-character word 
> 		boundaries
> 	patch 2/4 allow regular expressions to define what makes a word
> 	patch 3/4 add option to specify word boundary regexps via
> 		attributes
> 	patch 4/4 test word boundary regexps
>
> And I admit that I documented the code lousily, but that does not mean 
> that you should repeat that mistake.

Sounds like a reasonable request.  Also I am seeing:

    diff.c: In function 'scan_word_boundaries':
    diff.c:512: warning: enumeration value 'DIFF_WORD_UNDEF' not handled in switch

from this part of the code:

	for (i = 0; i < len; i++) {
		switch (buf->boundaries[i]) {
		case DIFF_WORD_BODY:
			*p++ = text[i];
			break;
		case DIFF_WORD_END:
			*p++ = text[i];
			*p++ = '\n'; /* insert an artificial newline */
			break;
		case DIFF_WORD_SPACE:
			*p++ = '\n';
			break;
		case DIFF_WORD_SKIP:
			/* nothing */
			break;
		}
	}