Re: [PATCH] userdiff: allow * between cpp funcname words

["René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>]

Am 06.12.2011 21:52, schrieb Johannes Sixt:
> Am 06.12.2011 21:19, schrieb Jeff King:
>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:17:56PM +0100, Thomas Rast wrote:
>>
>>>> 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).
>>>
>>> Actually (sadly) I'll have to revise it.  It doesn't match much of C++
>>> either, and I haven't yet come up with a reasonable regex that
>>> matches, say,
>>>
>>>    foo::Bar<int>::t&  Baz::operator<<(
>>>
>>> which I would call ludicrous, but it's valid C++.
>>
>> Ick, yeah. Maybe it is worth doing the "*" thing for now, and then
>> worrying about advanced C++ stuff on top as another patch. AFAICT, your
>> original patch is a strict improvement.
>
> Excuse me, where's the problem? The above example shows this
>
> @@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ char *url_decode(const char *url)
>          struct strbuf out = STRBUF_INIT;
> -       const char *slash = strchr(url, '/');
> +       const char *colon = strchr(url, ':');
> ...
>
> with current 4cb5d10b. This looks quite correct, no?

That's with the default heuristic; try something like this first to turn 
on userdiff:

	$ echo url.c diff=cpp >>.gitattributes

René