From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:24:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] diff: add custom regular expressions for function names
Message-ID: <87644zcl5x.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsxfe96i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

* Junio C. Hamano:

> I think using multiple regexp is cute, but if we do that, it
> should allow people to pick from:
>
> 	public class Beer
> 	{
> 		int special;
> 		public static void main(String args[])
>                 {
>                 	... modified part is here ...
>
> with two regexp matches, say:
>
> 	/^(public|private|protectd) class (.*)/ then
>         /^	+.* (\w*\(.*)$/
>
> and define the hunk_header format as something like:
>
> 	"\[1,2]::\[2,1]"

Even that doesn't work for C++ namespaces, or nested Java classes. 8-(
If you want to do it right, you need to spawn some helper program.