Per-path attribute based hunk header selection.

This makes"diff -p" hunk headers customizable via gitattributes mechanism.
It is based on Johannes's earlier patch that allowed to define a single
regexp to be used for everything.

The mechanism to arrive at the regexp that is used to define hunk header
is the same as other use of gitattributes.  You assign an attribute, funcname
(because "diff -p" typically uses the name of the function the patch is about
as the hunk header), a simple string value.  This can be one of the names of
built-in pattern (currently, "java" is defined) or a custom pattern name, to
be looked up from the configuration file.

  (in .gitattributes)
  *.java   funcname=java
  *.perl   funcname=perl

  (in .git/config)
  [funcname]
    java = ... # ugly and complicated regexp to override the built-in one.
    perl = ... # another ugly and complicated regexp to define a new one.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 60 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh b/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dc7a47b3f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2007 Johannes E. Schindelin
+#
+
+test_description='Test custom diff function name patterns'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+LF='
+'
+
+cat > Beer.java << EOF
+public class Beer
+{
+	int special;
+	public static void main(String args[])
+	{
+		String s=" ";
+		for(int x = 99; x > 0; x--)
+		{
+			System.out.print(x + " bottles of beer on the wall "
+				+ x + " bottles of beer\n"
+				+ "Take one down, pass it around, " + (x - 1)
+				+ " bottles of beer on the wall.\n");
+		}
+		System.out.print("Go to the store, buy some more,\n"
+			+ "99 bottles of beer on the wall.\n");
+	}
+}
+EOF
+
+sed 's/beer\\/beer,\\/' < Beer.java > Beer-correct.java
+
+test_expect_success 'default behaviour' '
+	git diff Beer.java Beer-correct.java |
+	grep "^@@.*@@ public class Beer"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'preset java pattern' '
+	echo "*.java funcname=java" >.gitattributes &&
+	git diff Beer.java Beer-correct.java |
+	grep "^@@.*@@ public static void main("
+'
+
+git config funcname.java '!static
+!String
+[^ 	].*s.*'
+
+test_expect_success 'custom pattern' '
+	git diff Beer.java Beer-correct.java |
+	grep "^@@.*@@ int special;$"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'last regexp must not be negated' '
+	git config diff.functionnameregexp "!static" &&
+	! git diff Beer.java Beer-correct.java
+'
+
+test_done