Merge branch 'js/diff-color-words'

* js/diff-color-words:
  Change the spelling of "wordregex".
  color-words: Support diff.wordregex config option
  color-words: make regex configurable via attributes
  color-words: expand docs with precise semantics
  color-words: enable REG_NEWLINE to help user
  color-words: take an optional regular expression describing words
  color-words: change algorithm to allow for 0-character word boundaries
  color-words: refactor word splitting and use ALLOC_GROW()
  Add color_fwrite_lines(), a function coloring each line individually

3 files changed, 43 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 290cb48eb9..e2b8775dd3 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -639,6 +639,12 @@ diff.suppressBlankEmpty::
 	A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
 	before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
 
+diff.wordRegex::
+	A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word"
+	when performing word-by-word difference calculations.  Character
+	sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
+	characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
+
 fetch.unpackLimit::
 	If the number of objects fetched over the git native
 	transfer is below this
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index a8ed23e7f8..813a7b11b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -94,8 +94,22 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 	Turn off colored diff, even when the configuration file
 	gives the default to color output.
 
---color-words::
-	Show colored word diff, i.e. color words which have changed.
+--color-words[=<regex>]::
+	Show colored word diff, i.e., color words which have changed.
+	By default, words are separated by whitespace.
++
+When a <regex> is specified, every non-overlapping match of the
+<regex> is considered a word.  Anything between these matches is
+considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding
+differences.  You may want to append `|[^[:space:]]` to your regular
+expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace characters.
+A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the
+newline.
++
+The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see
+linkgit:gitattributes[1] or linkgit:git-config[1].  Giving it explicitly
+overrides any diff driver or configuration setting.  Diff drivers
+override configuration settings.
 
 --no-renames::
 	Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration
diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 8af22eccac..227934f59a 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -317,6 +317,8 @@ patterns are available:
 
 - `bibtex` suitable for files with BibTeX coded references.
 
+- `cpp` suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages.
+
 - `html` suitable for HTML/XHTML documents.
 
 - `java` suitable for source code in the Java language.
@@ -334,6 +336,25 @@ patterns are available:
 - `tex` suitable for source code for LaTeX documents.
 
 
+Customizing word diff
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+You can customize the rules that `git diff --color-words` uses to
+split words in a line, by specifying an appropriate regular expression
+in the "diff.*.wordRegex" configuration variable.  For example, in TeX
+a backslash followed by a sequence of letters forms a command, but
+several such commands can be run together without intervening
+whitespace.  To separate them, use a regular expression such as
+
+------------------------
+[diff "tex"]
+	wordRegex = "\\\\[a-zA-Z]+|[{}]|\\\\.|[^\\{}[:space:]]+"
+------------------------
+
+A built-in pattern is provided for all languages listed in the
+previous section.
+
+
 Performing text diffs of binary files
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^