From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:41:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] diff: add custom regular expressions for function names
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707041140230.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707041905570.4071@racer.site>



On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> This patch introduces a config variable diff.functionNameRegexp
> which replaces the default heuristics.  If the pattern contains
> a group, the match of this group is used for the hunk header
> instead of the whole match.

Umm. Shouldn't it be a path-name based attribute instead?

That way you can set it to be different things for different source files 
in the same repository.. IOW, think mixed Java/C codebases.

		Linus