Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr.krukowiecki@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> is there a way to configure --word-diff to be a more programming
> language friendly? For example if I add one parameter to a function
> declaration, I'd like to see only the addition of the parameter as the
> change. But currently it shows much more.
>
> For example if
> void foo(int x);
> is changed to
> void foo(int x, int y);
> I'd like to see only ",int y" as the change, not "x, int y);".
>
> I think I'd like to ignore all white spaces and tokenize text on word
> boundaries and see the diff between the tokens. This way if I e.g. add
> a missing ";" it'll be shown as the only change.
Umm, what's wrong with
echo '*.cpp diff=cpp' >>.git/info/attributes
Ok, the funcname patterns aren't so good, but the word regex is designed
to "tokenize" as far as that is feasible.
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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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