From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 07:43:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Antw: Re: java diffs show no method context
Message-ID: <87y3hacszl.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5AE17203020000A10002B5EF@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de>


On Thu, Apr 26 2018, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> Thanks for that. It sounds plausible, but I wonder why it works automagically
> for C, but not for Java (Politcal reasons put aside): Using ".c" for C is about
> as common as using ".java" for Java ;-)

It has a bit to do with it being in C, but not in the way you think. By
default Git doesn't enable the "cpp" driver either for *.c, but it just
so happens to do the right thing more of the time because the default
heuristic is basically to search for a nearby line that doesn't start
with whitespace for context.

This doesn't work for Java because your methods tend to be indented
since they're part of the class you're working on.