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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] userdiff: allow * between cpp funcname words
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:02:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111206190217.GD9492@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a639d328e15bce3057de9238ee31097d15850de1.1323189110.git.trast@student.ethz.ch>

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:35:08PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:

> The cpp pattern, used for C and C++, would not match the start of a
> declaration such as
> 
>   static char *prepare_index(int argc,
> 
> because it did not allow for * anywhere between the various words that
> constitute the modifiers, type and function name.  Fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
> ---
> 
> This is a really sneaky one-character bug that I cannot believe went
> unnoticed for so long, seeing as there are plenty of instances within
> git itself where it matters.

Looks reasonable to me. You can see the difference, for instance, with:

  git show -U1 3c73a1d

(The -U1 is because of the annoying "we will start looking for the
header at the top of context, not the top of changes" behavior I
mentioned last week).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-06 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-06 16:35 [PATCH] userdiff: allow * between cpp funcname words Thomas Rast
2011-12-06 19:02 ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-12-06 20:17   ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-06 20:19     ` Jeff King
2011-12-06 20:52       ` Johannes Sixt
2011-12-06 21:07         ` René Scharfe
2011-12-06 21:15     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-12-07  8:04       ` Thomas Rast
2011-12-07 21:13         ` Johannes Sixt

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