Re: [PATCH] gitattributes: Cover Objective-C source files

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 18/3/22 15:42, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> I don't think this is needed. I could see a diff annotated with a method 
> name even without this change:
> % git diff
> diff --git a/ui/cocoa.m b/ui/cocoa.m
> index cb6e7c41dc6..14a4416cc8b 100644
> --- a/ui/cocoa.m
> +++ b/ui/cocoa.m
> @@ -1264,6 +1264,7 @@ - (id) init
>           [pauseLabel setTextColor: [NSColor blackColor]];
>           [pauseLabel sizeToFit];
>       }
> +    //
>       return self;
>   }
>
> Commit 29cf16db23 says:
> > Since commits 0979ed017f0 ("meson: rename .inc.h files to .h.inc")
> > and 139c1837db7 ("meson: rename included C source files to .c.inc")
> > 'git-diff --function-context' stopped displaying C function context
> > correctly.
>
> So I suspect Git has some knowledge of common file extensions like .c, 
> .h and .m although I couldn't find in the source code of Git.

'git-diff --function-context' doesn't work for me without this change.