Re: [GSoC][PATCH] userdiff: add built-in pattern for golang

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Alban Gruin <alban.gruin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, but I can split the line like that:
>>
>>     % cat >baz.go<<\EOF
>>     package baz
>>     func baz(arg1 int64,
>>         arg2 int64) {
>>     }
>>     EOF
>>     % go build baz.go
>>
>> This complies to the standard formatting (at least, gofmt doesn't change
>> it), but making the regex strict about the brace would cause it to
>> ignore those funcs, although I don't know how common they are.
>
> Makes sense. Thanks for the clarifying example. I wouldn't be at all
> surprised it such formatting exists in the wild, so keeping the regex
> as-is seems a good idea.

Does input like that appear in the tests the patch adds?  If not, it
probably is a good idea to have it somewhere in the commit (even if
there is no test addition, having it in the log message to explain
why the regex is done like so would be a good idea).

Thanks.