On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:04:06AM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > >Or maybe not there at all? We tend to do quite a bit with Matlab, and > >Matlab scripts also end in ".m". Unfortunately, it bears little > >resemblance to Objective-C. > > This default mapping is provided as a convenience only. Users can > edit .gitattributes as needed. If we assume that the number of > Macintosh and iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) programmers heavily > outweighs the number of Matlab users, then the convenience of having > .m in the default list may be justified. Yeah, but the cost of being wrong may be much higher than the cost of just using the default. > It also is reasonable to ask if the "*.m diff=objc" mapping actually > produces an inferior diff hunk-header[1] for Matlab files than when > "diff=objc" is not present. I think this is the important question. Is it inferior, and how bad does it look? And then we can weigh that against the convenience of not having to specify objc files in gitattributes. -Peff -- 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