Re: [PATCH v2] userdiff: remove empty subexpression from elixir regex

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

Am 13.12.19 um 18:55 schrieb Ed Maste:
> The regex failed to compile on FreeBSD.
> 
> Fixes: a807200f67588f6e

Having a references is this form is unusual for our codebase. (Not that
I mind a lot, though.) I expect that Junio will commit the fix on top of
the commit that introduced the bogus regex anyway (branch
ln/userdiff-elixir), and then it will be easy find.

> Signed-off-by: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
> ---
> Add /* -- */ to make things more clear and be consistent with other
> patterns.

This text would be nice to have in the commit message.

> 
>  userdiff.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/userdiff.c b/userdiff.c
> index 324916f20f..efbe05e5a5 100644
> --- a/userdiff.c
> +++ b/userdiff.c
> @@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ PATTERNS("dts",
>  	 "|[-+*/%&^|!~]|>>|<<|&&|\\|\\|"),
>  PATTERNS("elixir",
>  	 "^[ \t]*((def(macro|module|impl|protocol|p)?|test)[ \t].*)$",
> +	 /* -- */
>  	 /* Atoms, names, and module attributes */
> -	 "|[@:]?[a-zA-Z0-9@_?!]+"
> +	 "[@:]?[a-zA-Z0-9@_?!]+"
>  	 /* Numbers with specific base */
>  	 "|[-+]?0[xob][0-9a-fA-F]+"
>  	 /* Numbers */
> 

Good catch!

Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

Thanks!

-- Hannes