From: LI, BO XUAN <liboxuan@connect.hku.hk>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 12:19:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] userdiff.c & doc/gitattributes.txt: add Octave
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On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 7:34 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
>
> > I'd prefer to keep this list at the minimum necessary as long as it is
> > hard-coded in C.
>
> Yeah, I know that feeling.
>

So do we reach a consensus? Should I merge the Octave rules into Matlab rules?

Best regards,
Boxuan

> > I would take a different stance if this were some
> > configuration file that we ship.
>
> Hmm, now you reminded me of my ancient wish.
>
> Perhaps it is not too bad to ship $(sharedir)/git-core/userdiff that
> can be read using git_config_from_file() interface, using a very
> narrow callback function that understands only diff.*.xfuncname and
> diff.*.wordregex and discards everything else, without even
> following the include/includeIf stuff?  As long as that can be done
> safely and without too much overhead, we could get rid of the
> hardcoded patterns in userdiff.c::builtin_drivers[] and that would
> be wonderful ;-)
>