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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:21:04PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

> At the same time, I think we have seen people complaining that the
> regular dumb funcname detection is not good enough[1], and that using
> language-specific funcnames, while not 100% perfect, produces better
> results on the whole.

I forgot to include my footnote, but it was:

[1] We've seen requests on the list, and we also receive similar
    requests at GitHub for web-based diffs to use better funcnames. We
    just enabled the mapping ourselves a week or two ago via a system
    /etc/gitattributes file.