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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "LI, BO XUAN" <liboxuan@connect.hku.hk>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	philipoakley@iee.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] userdiff.c & doc/gitattributes.txt: add Octave
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 21:20:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <262eb1d4-a898-c6d0-8e04-ce6c58eaa4e6@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlfz64uzw.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Am 16.05.19 um 11:19 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:
> 
>> In Matlab, is %%% followed by space at the beginning of a line
>> *commonly* used for something different? If I were to make a guess, I
>> would say no. If I'm right, it does not hurt to merge the Octave rules
>> into the Matlab rules.
> 
> That is true because we are not syntax-aware and error-highlighting
> text editor.  If we were, I'd suspect that your stance may probably
> be different.  But instead we apply these patterns to a program that
> is assumed to be correctly written.

Correct!

> And from that point of view, I agree with you that it would not hurt
> to make the existing patterns for Matlab slightly more receptive so
> that a correctly written programs in either language would be matched
> appropriately.
> 
> But would it hurt to have two similar entries, with a clear
> description on how they are different, in our code there, given how
> infrequently individual entries have historically been updated?

Would it hurt? Probably not. Should we open the door for everybody's
favorite dialect? Probably not, either.

See, we do not even have separate entries for C and C++. Heck, we don't
have an XML entry, because the HTML entry is good enough, and there are
probably many more XML users than Matlab and Octave users together.

I'd prefer to keep this list at the minimum necessary as long as it is
hard-coded in C. I would take a different stance if this were some
configuration file that we ship.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-10  0:47 [PATCH] doc/gitattributes: add Octave Boxuan Li
2019-05-10 23:09 ` Philip Oakley
2019-05-10 23:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-11  2:36   ` LI, BO XUAN
2019-05-11  4:08     ` [PATCH v2] userdiff.c & doc/gitattributes.txt: " Boxuan Li
2019-05-11  4:13     ` [PATCH v3] " Boxuan Li
2019-05-15  5:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-15  5:57       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-05-15  6:15         ` LI, BO XUAN
2019-05-15 17:46           ` Johannes Sixt
2019-05-16  9:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-16 19:20               ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2019-05-16 23:33                 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-17 12:19                   ` LI, BO XUAN
2019-05-17 19:47                     ` Johannes Sixt
2019-05-15  5:55     ` [PATCH v4] " Boxuan Li
2019-05-18  3:46     ` [PATCH v5] userdiff: " Boxuan Li
2019-05-20 19:26       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-05-21 14:57         ` [PATCH v6] " Boxuan Li
2019-05-28 16:37         ` [PATCH v5] " Junio C Hamano
2019-05-28 20:26           ` Johannes Sixt
2019-05-29 16:15             ` [PATCH] userdiff: fix grammar and style issues Boxuan Li

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