From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:59:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .gitattributes: Enable cpp diff parsing for .[ch] files
Message-ID: <CA+55aFy=T82q==OxAzRfUgyfzMvy7=oeLOEAL8=rTJWOwkw-iA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwkndhc4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Not quite sure what you exactly mean by "extend it from just binary-vs-text".
> Do you mean update buffer_is_binary() and add source language detection?

Yes. Except the "detection" would be just "if we auto-detect it as
text, then use the standard file extensions to also make an automatic
hunk rule detection".

So it would do the most common cases (*.[Cch] etc)

                         Linus