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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:54:19 -0700
From:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .gitattributes: Enable cpp diff parsing for .[ch] files

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com> wrote:
>>
>> Add a .gitattributes file to the Linux tree to enable cpp parsing
>> of the source files.
>
> Hmm. I'm not entirely conviced. If people really think that the hunk
> description matters that much, maybe we should just instead improve on
> the automatic diff detection, and extend it from just binary-vs-text,
> to also do the common hunk-headers.
>
> After all, not having a diff pattern already *does* mean "automatic",
> so it would be just a rather trivial extension to that.

Not quite sure what you exactly mean by "extend it from just binary-vs-text".
Do you mean update buffer_is_binary() and add source language detection?

See also:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/180103/focus=180113

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