From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Cc: public git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: appending a pattern to the default "diff.cpp.xfuncname"
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 14:02:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160803180213.o7xpm4c4tw5rixmy@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40ceebb8-b343-a5ca-e7ff-23cccc181528@redhat.com>
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 12:16:14PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> I've used diff.<TYPE>.xfuncname with great success for file <TYPE>s that
> I defined myself. However, now I would like to append an extra pattern
> to the TYPE=cpp case (for which git has builtin patterns). Is there an
> easy way to do this?
>
> I figured I could open-code the builtin patterns from "userdiff.c", and
> then append my new pattern to those, but it looks kinda gross :)
Unfortunately, no, the config system has no notion of "append to this
value". So you are stuck with extracting the builtin value (which
annoyingly, you cannot even get without looking at the source code!),
and repeating it in your config file.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-03 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-03 10:16 appending a pattern to the default "diff.cpp.xfuncname" Laszlo Ersek
2016-08-03 18:02 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-08-03 18:12 ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-08-03 18:34 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-03 18:40 ` Jeff King
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