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Junio C Hamano
17e1c9e2fd Merge branch 'jn/perl-funcname'
* jn/perl-funcname:
  userdiff/perl: catch BEGIN/END/... and POD as headers
  diff: funcname and word patterns for perl
2011-01-13 11:38:05 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
37ee62bc6b Merge branch 'jk/diff-driver-binary-doc'
* jk/diff-driver-binary-doc:
  docs: explain diff.*.binary option
2011-01-13 11:34:56 -08:00
Jeff King
ab4356111a docs: explain diff.*.binary option
This was added long ago as part of the userdiff refactoring
for textconv, as internally it made the code simpler and
cleaner. However, there was never a concrete use case for
actually using the config variable.

Now that Matthieu Moy has provided such a use case, it's
easy to explain it using his example.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-01-10 10:00:14 -08:00
Jonathan Nieder
71a5d4bc0e diff: funcname and word patterns for perl
The default function name discovery already works quite well for Perl
code... with the exception of here-documents (or rather their ending).

 sub foo {
	print <<END
 here-document
 END
	return 1;
 }

The default funcname pattern treats the unindented END line as a
function declaration and puts it in the @@ line of diff and "grep
--show-function" output.

With a little knowledge of perl syntax, we can do better.  You can
try it out by adding "*.perl diff=perl" to the gitattributes file.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-27 08:47:21 -08:00
Pete Wyckoff
a2b665de4b convert filter: supply path to external driver
Filtering to support keyword expansion may need the name of
the file being filtered.  In particular, to support p4 keywords
like

    $File: //depot/product/dir/script.sh $

the smudge filter needs to know the name of the file it is
smudging.

Allow "%f" in the custom filter command line specified in the
configuration.  This will be substituted by the filename
inside a single-quote pair to be passed to the shell.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw@padd.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-22 10:19:32 -08:00
Johannes Sixt
f4b05a4947 Make the tab width used for whitespace checks configurable
A new whitespace "rule" is added that sets the tab width to use for
whitespace checks and fix-ups and replaces the hard-coded constant 8.

Since the setting is part of the rules, it can be set per file using
.gitattributes.

The new configuration is backwards compatible because older git versions
simply ignore unknown whitespace rules.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-12-01 14:47:51 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
083dd39ed4 Merge branch 'bc/fortran-userdiff'
* bc/fortran-userdiff:
  userdiff.c: add builtin fortran regex patterns
2010-09-29 13:49:23 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
2851e8eba5 Merge branch 'po/etc-gitattributes'
* po/etc-gitattributes:
  Add global and system-wide gitattributes

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Makefile
2010-09-29 13:47:51 -07:00
Brandon Casey
909a5494f8 userdiff.c: add builtin fortran regex patterns
This adds fortran xfuncname and wordRegex patterns to the list of builtin
patterns.  The intention is for the patterns to be appropriate for all
versions of fortran including 77, 90, 95.  The patterns can be enabled by
adding the diff=fortran attribute to the .gitattributes file for the
desired file glob.

This also adds a new macro named IPATTERN which is just like the PATTERNS
macro except it sets the REG_ICASE flag so that case will be ignored.

The test code in t4018 and the docs were updated as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-10 09:38:29 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
8aed4a5e38 Merge branch 'jn/merge-renormalize'
* jn/merge-renormalize:
  merge-recursive --renormalize
  rerere: never renormalize
  rerere: migrate to parse-options API
  t4200 (rerere): modernize style
  ll-merge: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  ll-merge: make flag easier to populate
  Documentation/technical: document ll_merge
  merge-trees: let caller decide whether to renormalize
  merge-trees: push choice to renormalize away from low level
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): check that it can be turned off
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): try checkout -m and cherry-pick
  t6038 (merge.renormalize): style nitpicks
  Don't expand CRLFs when normalizing text during merge
  Try normalizing files to avoid delete/modify conflicts when merging
  Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization

Conflicts:
	builtin/rerere.c
	t/t4200-rerere.sh
2010-09-03 09:43:41 -07:00
Petr Onderka
6df42ab984 Add global and system-wide gitattributes
Allow gitattributes to be set globally and system wide. This way, settings
for particular file types can be set in one place and apply for all user's
repositories.

The location of system-wide attributes file is $(prefix)/etc/gitattributes.
The location of the global file can be configured by setting
core.attributesfile.

Some parts of the code were copied from the implementation of the same
functionality in config.c.

Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-09-01 12:19:36 -07:00
Petr Onderka
b221207db9 Userdiff patterns for C#
Add userdiff patterns for C#. This code is an improved version of
code by Adam Petaccia from 21 June 2009 mail to the list.

Signed-off-by: Petr Onderka <gsvick@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-08-16 18:28:27 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
f217f0e86d Avoid conflicts when merging branches with mixed normalization
Currently, merging across changes in line ending normalization is
painful since files containing CRLF will conflict with normalized files,
even if the only difference between the two versions is the line
endings.  Additionally, any "real" merge conflicts that exist are
obscured because every line in the file has a conflict.

Assume you start out with a repo that has a lot of text files with CRLF
checked in (A):

      o---C
     /     \
    A---B---D

B: Add "* text=auto" to .gitattributes and normalize all files to
   LF-only

C: Modify some of the text files

D: Try to merge C

You will get a ridiculous number of LF/CRLF conflicts when trying to
merge C into D, since the repository contents for C are "wrong" wrt the
new .gitattributes file.

Fix ll-merge so that the "base", "theirs" and "ours" stages are passed
through convert_to_worktree() and convert_to_git() before a three-way
merge.  This ensures that all three stages are normalized in the same
way, removing from consideration differences that are only due to
normalization.

This feature is optional for now since it changes a low-level mechanism
and is not necessary for the majority of users.  The "merge.renormalize"
config variable enables it.

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-07-02 15:43:15 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
d5cff17eda Merge branch 'eb/core-eol'
* eb/core-eol:
  Add "core.eol" config variable
  Rename the "crlf" attribute "text"
  Add per-repository eol normalization
  Add tests for per-repository eol normalization

Conflicts:
	Documentation/config.txt
	Makefile
2010-06-21 06:02:49 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
942e774767 Add "core.eol" config variable
Introduce a new configuration variable, "core.eol", that allows the user
to set which line endings to use for end-of-line-normalized files in the
working directory.  It defaults to "native", which means CRLF on Windows
and LF everywhere else.

Note that "core.autocrlf" overrides core.eol.  This means that

[core]
	autocrlf = true

puts CRLFs in the working directory even if core.eol is set to "lf".

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-06 21:20:04 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
1bdd46cd3a Merge branch 'tr/word-diff'
* tr/word-diff:
  diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words

Conflicts:
	diff.c
2010-05-21 04:02:17 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
5ec3e67052 Rename the "crlf" attribute "text"
As discussed on the list, "crlf" is not an optimal name.  Linus
suggested "text", which is much better.

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-19 20:42:34 -07:00
Eyvind Bernhardsen
fd6cce9e89 Add per-repository eol normalization
Change the semantics of the "crlf" attribute so that it enables
end-of-line normalization when it is set, regardless of "core.autocrlf".

Add a new setting for "crlf": "auto", which enables end-of-line
conversion but does not override the automatic text file detection.

Add a new attribute "eol" with possible values "crlf" and "lf".  When
set, this attribute enables normalization and forces git to use CRLF or
LF line endings in the working directory, respectively.

The line ending style to be used for normalized text files in the
working directory is set using "core.autocrlf".  When it is set to
"true", CRLFs are used in the working directory; when set to "input" or
"false", LFs are used.

Signed-off-by: Eyvind Bernhardsen <eyvind.bernhardsen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-05-19 20:36:15 -07:00
Thomas Rast
882749a04f diff: add --word-diff option that generalizes --color-words
This teaches the --color-words engine a more general interface that
supports two new modes:

* --word-diff=plain, inspired by the 'wdiff' utility (most similar to
  'wdiff -n <old> <new>'): uses delimiters [-removed-] and {+added+}

* --word-diff=porcelain, which generates an ad-hoc machine readable
  format:
  - each diff unit is prefixed by [-+ ] and terminated by newline as
    in unified diff
  - newlines in the input are output as a line consisting only of a
    tilde '~'

Both of these formats still support color if it is enabled, using it
to highlight the differences.  --color-words becomes a synonym for
--word-diff=color, which is the color-only format.  Also adds some
compatibility/convenience options.

Thanks to Junio C Hamano and Miles Bader for good ideas.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-14 10:56:53 -07:00
Jeff King
d9bae1a178 diff: cache textconv output
Running a textconv filter can take a long time. It's
particularly bad for a large file which needs to be spooled
to disk, but even for small files, the fork+exec overhead
can add up for something like "git log -p".

This patch uses the notes-cache mechanism to keep a fast
cache of textconv output. Caches are stored in
refs/notes/textconv/$x, where $x is the userdiff driver
defined in gitattributes.

Caching is enabled only if diff.$x.cachetextconv is true.

In my test repo, on a commit with 45 jpg and avi files
changed and a textconv to show their exif tags:

  [before]
  $ time git show >/dev/null
  real    0m13.724s
  user    0m12.057s
  sys     0m1.624s

  [after, first run]
  $ git config diff.mfo.cachetextconv true
  $ time git show >/dev/null
  real    0m14.252s
  user    0m12.197s
  sys     0m1.800s

  [after, subsequent runs]
  $ time git show >/dev/null
  real    0m0.352s
  user    0m0.148s
  sys     0m0.200s

So for a slight (3.8%) cost on the first run, we achieve an
almost 40x speed up on subsequent runs.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-04-02 00:05:31 -07:00
Bert Wesarg
16758621d5 Documentation: mention conflict marker size argument (%L) for merge driver
23a64c9e (conflict-marker-size: new attribute, 2010-01-16) introduced the
new attribute and also pass the conflict marker size as %L to merge driver
commands. This documents the substitution.

Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-23 13:11:28 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
4c734803cb conflict-marker-size: add test and docs
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-20 23:49:27 -08:00
Thomas Rast
0b444cdb19 Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughout
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it
only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax:
both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist.

The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent
in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands.,
2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants.

Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell,
git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and
git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the
$PATH.
2010-01-10 13:01:28 +01:00
Nanako Shiraishi
d79f5d1718 Illustrate "filter" attribute with an example
The example was taken from aa4ed402c9
(Add 'filter' attribute and external filter driver definition).

Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-12-14 22:04:30 -08:00
Nasser Grainawi
975457f185 Document delta attribute in "git help attributes".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-10-21 14:07:44 -07:00
Ori Avtalion
57f6ec0290 Change mentions of "git programs" to "git commands"
Most of the docs and printouts refer to "commands" when discussing what
the end users call via the "git" top-level program. We should refer them
as "git programs" when we discuss the fact that the commands are
implemented as separate programs, but in other contexts, it is better to
use the term "git commands" consistently.

Signed-off-by: Ori Avtalion <ori@avtalion.name>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-08-12 16:14:41 -07:00
Jeff King
c4c86d2389 doc/gitattributes: clarify location of config text
The gitattributes documentation has a section on the "diff"
attribute, with subsections for each of the things you might
want to configure in your diff config section (external
diff, hunk headers, etc). The first such subsection
specifically notes that the definition of the diff driver
should go into $GIT_DIR/config, but subsequent sections do
not.

This location is implied if you are reading the
documentation sequentially, but it is not uncommon for a new
user to jump to (or be referred to) a specific section. For
a new user who does not know git well enough to recognize
the config syntax, it is not clear that those directives
don't also go into the gitattributes file.

This patch just mentions the config file in each subsection,
similar to the way it is mentioned in the first.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-17 21:28:07 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
747f9d30ed Merge branch 'maint-1.6.1' into maint
* maint-1.6.1:
  Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
  git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
  git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07 23:05:14 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
aa41cf8f43 Merge branch 'maint-1.6.0' into maint-1.6.1
* maint-1.6.0:
  Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
  git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given.
  git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
2009-04-07 22:51:14 -07:00
Jason Merrill
20ff3ec28e Documentation: clarify .gitattributes search
Use the term "toplevel of the work tree" in gitattributes.txt and
gitignore.txt to define the limits of the search for those files.

Signed-off-by: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-04-07 21:58:25 -07:00
Johannes Sixt
3f74c8e8d8 gitattributes.txt: Path matching rules are explained in gitignore.txt
The rules how the patterns are matched against path names are the same
for .gitattribute and .gitignore files.

This also replace the notion "glob pattern" by "pattern" because
gitignore.txt talks about "glob" only in some contexts where the pattern
is mentioned.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-02-25 00:49:54 -08:00
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr
ae3b970ac3 Change the spelling of "wordregex".
Use "wordRegex" for configuration variable names.  Use "word_regex" for C
language tokens.

Signed-off-by: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-21 23:52:16 -08:00
Thomas Rast
80c49c3de2 color-words: make regex configurable via attributes
Make the --color-words splitting regular expression configurable via
the diff driver's 'wordregex' attribute.  The user can then set the
driver on a file in .gitattributes.  If a regex is given on the
command line, it overrides the driver's setting.

We also provide built-in regexes for the languages that already had
funcname patterns, and add an appropriate diff driver entry for C/++.
(The patterns are designed to run UTF-8 sequences into a single chunk
to make sure they remain readable.)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-17 10:44:21 -08:00
Alexander Gavrilov
a2df1fb2e5 Documentation: New GUI configuration and command-line options.
Add information on new git-gui and gitk command-line options,
configuration variables, and the encoding attribute.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gavrilov <angavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-14 21:38:11 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
459d60084f Merge branch 'jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix'
* jk/diff-convfilter-test-fix:
  Avoid using non-portable `echo -n` in tests.
  add userdiff textconv tests
  document the diff driver textconv feature
  diff: add missing static declaration

Conflicts:
	Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-11-12 21:50:41 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
aebd173ffa Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Start 1.6.0.4 cycle
  add instructions on how to send patches to the mailing list with Gmail
  Documentation/gitattributes: Add subsection header for each attribute
  git send-email: avoid leaking directory file descriptors.
  send-pack: do not send out single-level refs such as refs/stash
  fix overlapping memcpy in normalize_absolute_path
  pack-objects: avoid reading uninitalized data
  correct cache_entry allocation

Conflicts:
	RelNotes
2008-11-02 00:15:22 -07:00
Jakub Narebski
4f73e240f9 Documentation/gitattributes: Add subsection header for each attribute
This makes attributes easier to find; before this patch some
attributes had individual subsections, and some didn't.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-11-01 23:48:48 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
933bb3ae5e Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  git-svn: change dashed git-commit-tree to git commit-tree
  Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute
  bash completion: add doubledash to "git show"
  Use test-chmtime -v instead of perl in t5000 to get mtime of a file
  Add --verbose|-v to test-chmtime
  asciidoc: add minor workaround to add an empty line after code blocks
  Plug a memleak in builtin-revert
  Add file delete/create info when we overflow rename_limit
  Install git-cvsserver in $(bindir)
  Install git-shell in bindir, too
2008-10-31 01:42:58 -07:00
Jan Krüger
2c850f1221 Documentation: clarify information about 'ident' attribute
The documentation spoke of the attribute being set "to" a path; this can
mistakenly be interpreted as "the attribute needs to have its value set to
some kind of path". This clarifies things.

Signed-off-by: Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-31 01:07:10 -07:00
Jeff King
678852d918 document the diff driver textconv feature
This patch also changes the term "custom diff driver" to
"external diff driver"; now that there are more facets of a
"custom driver" than just external diffing, it makes sense
to refer to the configuration of "diff.foo.*" as the "foo
diff driver", with "diff.foo.command" as the "external
driver for foo".

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-26 14:09:47 -07:00
Jonathan del Strother
5d1e958e24 Teach git diff about Objective-C syntax
Add support for recognition of Objective-C class & instance methods,
C functions, and class implementation/interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan del Strother <jon.delStrother@bestbefore.tv>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-10-06 09:02:47 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
5a139ba483 Merge branch 'maint' into bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fix
* maint: (41 commits)
  Clarify commit error message for unmerged files
  Use strchrnul() instead of strchr() plus manual workaround
  Use remove_path from dir.c instead of own implementation
  Add remove_path: a function to remove as much as possible of a path
  git-submodule: Fix "Unable to checkout" for the initial 'update'
  Clarify how the user can satisfy stash's 'dirty state' check.
  Remove empty directories in recursive merge
  Documentation: clarify the details of overriding LESS via core.pager
  Update release notes for 1.6.0.3
  checkout: Do not show local changes when in quiet mode
  for-each-ref: Fix --format=%(subject) for log message without newlines
  git-stash.sh: don't default to refs/stash if invalid ref supplied
  maint: check return of split_cmdline to avoid bad config strings
  builtin-prune.c: prune temporary packs in <object_dir>/pack directory
  Do not perform cross-directory renames when creating packs
  Use dashless git commands in setgitperms.perl
  git-remote: do not use user input in a printf format string
  make "git remote" report multiple URLs
  Start draft release notes for 1.6.0.3
  git-repack uses --no-repack-object, not --no-repack-delta.
  ...

Conflicts:
	RelNotes
2008-09-29 10:52:34 -07:00
Shawn O. Pearce
edb7e82f72 Merge branch 'bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix' into maint
* bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix:
  t4018-diff-funcname: test syntax of builtin xfuncname patterns
  diff hunk pattern: fix misconverted "\{" tex macro introducers
  diff: use extended regexp to find hunk headers
  diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selection
  diff.c: associate a flag with each pattern and use it for compiling regex
  diff.c: return pattern entry pointer rather than just the hunk header pattern

Conflicts:
	Documentation/gitattributes.txt
2008-09-29 10:23:19 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
dde4af4313 Merge branch 'bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix' into bc/master-diff-hunk-header-fix
* bc/maint-diff-hunk-header-fix:
  diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selection
  diff.c: associate a flag with each pattern and use it for compiling regex
  diff.c: return pattern entry pointer rather than just the hunk header pattern
  Cosmetical command name fix
  Start conforming code to "git subcmd" style part 3
  t9700/test.pl: remove File::Temp requirement
  t9700/test.pl: avoid bareword 'STDERR' in 3-argument open()
  GIT 1.6.0.2
  Fix some manual typos.
  Use compatibility regex library also on FreeBSD
  Use compatibility regex library also on AIX
  Update draft release notes for 1.6.0.2
  Use compatibility regex library for OSX/Darwin
  git-svn: Fixes my() parameter list syntax error in pre-5.8 Perl
  Git.pm: Use File::Temp->tempfile instead of ->new
  t7501: always use test_cmp instead of diff
  Start conforming code to "git subcmd" style part 2
  diff: Help "less" hide ^M from the output
  checkout: do not check out unmerged higher stages randomly

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git.txt
	Documentation/gitattributes.txt
	Makefile
	diff.c
	t/t7201-co.sh
2008-09-18 20:32:50 -07:00
Brandon Casey
45d9414fa5 diff.*.xfuncname which uses "extended" regex's for hunk header selection
Currently, the hunk headers produced by 'diff -p' are customizable by
setting the diff.*.funcname option in the config file. The 'funcname' option
takes a basic regular expression. This functionality was designed using the
GNU regex library which, by default, allows using backslashed versions of
some extended regular expression operators, even in Basic Regular Expression
mode. For example, the following characters, when backslashed, are
interpreted according to the extended regular expression rules: ?, +, and |.
As such, the builtin funcname patterns were created using some extended
regular expression operators.

Other platforms which adhere more strictly to the POSIX spec do not
interpret the backslashed extended RE operators in Basic Regular Expression
mode. This causes the pattern matching for the builtin funcname patterns to
fail on those platforms.

Introduce a new option 'xfuncname' which uses extended regular expressions,
and advertise it _instead_ of funcname. Since most users are on GNU
platforms, the majority of funcname patterns are created and tested there.
Advertising only xfuncname should help to avoid the creation of non-portable
patterns which work with GNU regex but not elsewhere.

Additionally, the extended regular expressions may be less ugly and
complicated compared to the basic RE since many common special operators do
not need to be backslashed.

For example, the GNU Basic RE:

    ^[ 	]*\\(\\(public\\|static\\).*\\)$

becomes the following Extended RE:

    ^[ 	]*((public|static).*)$

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-18 20:06:31 -07:00
Garry Dolley
c882c01ef9 Clarified gitattributes documentation regarding custom hunk header.
The only part of the hunk header that we can change is the "TEXT"
portion.  Additionally, a few grammatical errors have been corrected.

Signed-off-by: Garry Dolley <gdolley@ucla.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-18 19:44:47 -07:00
Ralf Wildenhues
b66e00f12a Fix some manual typos.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-12 13:19:56 -07:00
Andreas Ericsson
af9ce1ffc6 Teach "git diff -p" to locate PHP class methods
Otherwise it will always print the class-name rather
than the name of the function inside that class.

While we're at it, reorder the gitattributes manpage to
list the built-in funcname pattern names in alphabetical
order.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-09-07 15:22:24 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
7f314565fe Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
  Document sendemail.envelopesender configuration
  Document clarification: gitmodules, gitattributes
  config.txt: Add missing colons after option name
2008-08-31 16:52:53 -07:00
Gustaf Hendeby
e5b5c1d2cf Document clarification: gitmodules, gitattributes
The SYNOPSIS section of gitattibutes and gitmodule fail to clearly
specify the name of the in tree files used.  This patch brings in the
initial `.' and the fact that the `.gitmodules' file should reside at
the top-level of the working tree.

Signed-off-by: Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-08-31 16:31:58 -07:00