linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] .gitattributes: Enable cpp diff parsing for .[ch] files

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Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:59:35 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
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

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

Yes. Except the "detection" would be just "if we auto-detect it as
text, then use the standard file extensions to also make an automatic
hunk rule detection".

So it would do the most common cases (*.[Cch] etc)

                         Linus
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