Re: [PATCH] .gitattributes: Enable cpp diff parsing for .[ch] files

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not quite sure what you exactly mean by "extend it from just binary-vs-text".
> Do you mean update buffer_is_binary() and add source language detection?

Yes. Except the "detection" would be just "if we auto-detect it as
text, then use the standard file extensions to also make an automatic
hunk rule detection".

So it would do the most common cases (*.[Cch] etc)

                         Linus
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