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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use $author_name undefined when $from contains no /\s</.
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:48:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ehar3v$e73$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pscnj29t.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu

Paul Eggert wrote:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
> 
>> If "trailing space" highlighting picks up the first column blank
>> in "diff -u" output, that highlighting feature is *broken*.
> 
> If the buffer contains arbitrary text, some of which is diff -u output
> and some of which is not, then it it isn't possible in general for the
> highlighting mode to distinguish between the diff -u part and the
> other part.

Not true. If GNU patch (and git-apply) can detect where diff begins,
and can detect if diff was truncated, then highlighting mode can
distinguish between diff -u part and rest... well, unless you intermix
diff-u output and arbitrary text (so the patch would not apply, but what
happens when commenting a patch).

Still I'd rather relax highlighting code to not highlight "SPC LF"
than to change diff -u format.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-19  8:33 [PATCH] Don't use $author_name undefined when $from contains no /\s</ Jim Meyering
2006-10-19 16:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-19 18:16   ` Jim Meyering
2006-10-19 19:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-19 21:28       ` Paul Eggert
2006-10-19 21:34         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-19 23:48           ` Paul Eggert
2006-10-20  7:52             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-10-20 16:21               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 15:48             ` Jakub Narebski [this message]

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