Re: rename_rev.pl script for reviewing renames

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 15:25 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Or if you have a camel case script that changes "ThisVariable" to
> "this_variable".  Then the command would be:
> git show c659c38 | ./rename_rev.pl -ea '$_ = lc' -ea 's/_//g'
> Which changes everything to lower case and strips out all the
> underscores.  You might want to combine it with some other flags:
> git show c659c38 | ./rename_rev.pl -nc \
> 	-e 's/TLanPrivateInfo/struct tlan_priv/' \
> 	-e 's/TLanList/struct tlan_list/' \
> 	-ea '$_ = lc' -ea 's/_//g'

Hi Dan.

I think you'll need to add '\b$1\b' to your tests
otherwise your first example will check things like
"TLanPrivateInfoType" as well.

> What I would like is if there was some way to ignore changes which just
> introduced new lines, but didn't affect runtime behavior.  I'm not sure
> how to do that.

Any object change will affect runtime behavior.