David Abrahams venit, vidit, dixit 06.04.2009 11:09: > > On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Jeff King wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 09:10:42PM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >> >>> Please see >>> http://github.com/techarcana/elisp/commit/63d672c296316c85690085930b05c642b88a9978#diff-2 >>> >>> Note how the @@ ... @@ clauses are followed by text from the previous >>> line's comment. Not sure, but this strikes me as a line-ending >>> issue. >>> custom.el was originally built on a linux machine; now I'm using a >>> Mac. >> >> This is as designed. The original file ("git show e7dd7db") contains >> (my >> numbering seems different than what git produces; it is produced by >> "nl" >> which is maybe treating some line endings differently earlier in the >> file): >> >> 102 '(mm-attachment-override-types (quote ("text/x-vcard" >> "application/pkcs7-mime" "application/x-pkcs7-mime" "application/ >> pkcs7-signature" "application/x-pkcs7-signature" "image/*")) nil nil " >> 103 Added image/* to display attached images inline") >> 104 '(mm-discouraged-alternatives (quote ("text/html" "text/ >> richtext" "image/.*")) nil nil " >> 105 The documentation for this variable says it all") >> 106 '(mm-inline-text-html-with-images t) >> 107 '(muse-project-alist (quote (("WikiPlanner" ("~/ >> plans" :default "index" :major-mode planner-mode :visit-link planner- >> visit-link))))) >> 108 '(org-agenda-files (quote ("~/organizer.org"))) >> >> The changed text in your diff starts on 108. So we show 105-107 as >> context lines. The text after the @@ clause is the "function header"; >> this is equivalent to "-p" in GNU diff. It's basically a guess about >> the >> most interesting context to show, and looks alphabetic characters that >> are left-aligned. In the case of lisp, it really isn't all that >> interesting (and what looks so weird is that your file contains >> a lot of >> >> "\nSome text" >> >> so the text strings are all left-aligned. You can customize the regex >> used to guess at the function header. See "defining a custom >> hunk-header" in "git help attributes". > > Hmm, so I tried sticking this .gitattributes in my repo > > *.el diff=el > [diff "el"] > xfuncname = "^(\\(def[a-z]+ .+)$" > > and git diff barfed with > > "el"] is not a valid attribute name: .gitattributes:2 > "^(\\(def[a-z]+ is not a valid attribute name: .gitattributes:3 > > What am I missing? I tried googling, but from what turns up for me, > it doesn't look like anyone else has ever tried to use this feature! Well, I don't think anayone else has tried putting config lines into .gitattributes ;) The "*.el" line goes into .gitattributes (or .git/info/a...), the other lines are config lines and thus goe into .git/config or .gitconfig. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html