Re: Trying to use xfuncname without success.

[Jack Adrian Zappa <adrianh.bsc@gmail.com>]

Thanks Samuel,

That example showed that there must be something wrong in my .git
directory, because with it, I'm getting the correct output.  Moving
the same lines to my .git/config didn't work.

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just put this togther: https://github.com/sxlijin/xfuncname-test
>
> Try cloning and then for any of config1 thru 3,
>
> $ cp configX .git/config
> $ git diff HEAD^ -- test.natvis
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Jack Adrian Zappa <adrianh.bsc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Samuel,
>>
>> So, the question is, what is causing this problem on my system?
>>
>> Anyone have an idea to help diagnose this problem?
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Samuel Lijin <sxlijin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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@web.de> 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