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authorThomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>2009-01-17 17:29:48 +0100
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-01-17 10:44:21 -0800
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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>
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@@ -317,6 +317,8 @@ patterns are available:
- `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references.
+- `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
+
- `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents.
- `java` suitable for source code in the Java language.
@@ -334,6 +336,25 @@ patterns are available:
- `tex` suitable for source code for LaTeX documents.
+Customizing word diff
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can customize the rules that `git diff --color-words` uses to
+split words in a line, by specifying an appropriate regular expression
+in the "diff.*.wordregex" configuration variable. For example, in TeX
+a backslash followed by a sequence of letters forms a command, but
+several such commands can be run together without intervening
+whitespace. To separate them, use a regular expression such as
+
+------------------------
+[diff "tex"]
+ wordregex = "\\\\[a-zA-Z]+|[{}]|\\\\.|[^\\{}[:space:]]+"
+------------------------
+
+A built-in pattern is provided for all languages listed in the
+previous section.
+
+
Performing text diffs of binary files
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^