From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:50:29 GMT
Subject: Re: A better git diff --word-diff (--word-diff-regex) ?
Message-ID: <87ipi0vs0q.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <CAA01CsrJ12LmNYe6ujnDsZecJcGc8mFaB=1GC8-RZzvMYbYuUw@mail.gmail.com>

Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@gmail.com> writes:

> is there a way to configure --word-diff to be a more programming
> language friendly? For example if I add one parameter to a function
> declaration, I'd like to see only the addition of the parameter as the
> change. But currently it shows much more.
>
> For example if
>   void foo(int x);
> is changed to
>   void foo(int x, int y);
> I'd like to see only ",int y" as the change, not "x, int y);".
>
> I think I'd like to ignore all white spaces and tokenize text on word
> boundaries and see the diff between the tokens. This way if I e.g. add
> a missing ";" it'll be shown as the only change.

Umm, what's wrong with

  echo '*.cpp diff=cpp' >>.git/info/attributes

Ok, the funcname patterns aren't so good, but the word regex is designed
to "tokenize" as far as that is feasible.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch