On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Not quite sure what you exactly mean by "extend it from just binary-vs-text".
Do you mean update buffer_is_binary() and add source language detection?

Yes. Except the "detection" would be just "if we auto-detect it as
text, then use the standard file extensions to also make an automatic
hunk rule detection".

So it would do the most common cases (*.[Cch] etc)

                         Linus