On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:18:30PM +0100, Daniel Hahler wrote: > I'm wondering why the built-in patterns (defined in userdiff.c) are not > being applied by default, e.g. what you would normally do in > core.attributesfile via: > > *.py diff=python > > Wouldn't it make sense to provide certain defaults for attributes, where > Git provides enhanced patterns? It's been discussed: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/187269 It ended up with a lot of back-and-forth over which extensions belonged to which type, and whether the C funcname pattern was terrible or not. I got sick of it and dropped the patch. You are welcome to try resurrecting it. :) It might help to read the discussion and drop any contentious names. Since that thread, the C/C++ pattern has improved greatly, so it might not meet so much resistance. -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