On Windows 7, it works for me in both CMD and Git Bash:
$ git --version
git version 2.11.0.windows.3
$ git diff HEAD^ --word-diff
diff --git a/test.natvis b/test.natvis
index 93396ad..1233b8c 100644
--- a/test.natvis
+++ b/test.natvis
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ test
<!-- Non-blank line -->
{+<Item Name="added var">added_var</Item>+}
<Item Name="var2">var2</Item>
On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:37 PM, René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 08.02.2017 um 18:11 schrieb Jack Adrian Zappa:
>> Thanks Rene, but you seem to have missed the point. NOTHING is
>> working. No matter what I put there, it doesn't seem to get matched.
>
> I'm not so sure about that. With your example I get this diff without
> setting diff.natvis.xfuncname:
>
> diff --git a/a.natvis b/a.natvis
> index 7f9bdf5..bc3c090 100644
> --- a/a.natvis
> +++ b/a.natvis
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/vstudio/debugger/natvis/2010";>
>
>
> <!-- Non-blank line -->
> - <Item Name="added var">added_var</Item>
> + <Item Name="added var">added_vars</Item>
>
>
> <Item Name="var2">var2</Item>
>
> Note the XML namespace in the hunk header. It's put there by the
> default rule because "xmlns" starts at the beginning of the line. Your
> diff has nothing there, which means the default rule is not used, i.e.
> your user-defined rule is in effect.
>
> Come to think of it, this line break in the middle of the AutoVisualizer
> tab might have been added by your email client unintentionally, so that
> we use different test files, which then of course results in different
> diffs. Is that the case?
>
> Anyway, if I run the following two commands:
>
> $ git config diff.natvis.xfuncname "^[\t ]*<Type[\t ]+Name=\"([^\"]+)\".*$"
> $ echo '*.natvis diff=natvis' >.gitattributes
>
> ... then I get this, both on Linux (git version 2.11.1) and on Windows
> (git version 2.11.1.windows.1):
>
> diff --git a/a.natvis b/a.natvis
> index 7f9bdf5..bc3c090 100644
> --- a/a.natvis
> +++ b/a.natvis
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ test
>
>
> <!-- Non-blank line -->
> - <Item Name="added var">added_var</Item>
> + <Item Name="added var">added_vars</Item>
>
>
> <Item Name="var2">var2</Item>
>
>> Just to be sure, I tested your regex and again it didn't work.
>
> At this point I'm out of ideas, sorry. :( The only way I was able to
> break it was due to mistyping the extension as "netvis" several times
> for some reason.
>
> René