From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 13:09:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/1] userdiff: extend Bash pattern to cover more shell function forms
Message-ID: <xmqq8qmvs7sd.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <8343694f-6e05-43c5-862a-63702314760e@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

>> +y=<RED>3.14<RESET><GREEN>2.71<RESET>
>> +z=<RED>.5<RESET><GREEN>.75<RESET>
>
> When do decimal numbers occur in shell scripts? Wouldn't it be more
> often the case that a fullstop is part of a regular expression or a file
> name or version number that happens to be surrounded by numbers? In that
> case, we would prefer to capture the digit sequences as separate words.

Sorry but I am confused.  

Do you want a filename "sample.3gp" treated as having separate
parts, "sample", ".3", and "gp", instead of a single word?