Re: [RFC/PATCH] attr: map builtin userdiff drivers to well-known extensions

On 08/25/2011 09:45 PM, Jeff King wrote:

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:29:36PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote:

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Also, any other extensions that would go into such a list?

*.bib diff=bibtex
*.tex diff=tex

I had those ones already. ;P

Indeed.  I must be blind, I skipped right over them.

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*.[Ff] diff=fortran
*.[Ff][0-9][0-9] diff=fortran

Thanks, I'll add those. I don't see a big problem with generalizing
f[0-9][0-9] to always be fortran, even though many of those numbers
aren't used. I don't think I've ever seen one used for anything else.

Should all of our matches be case-insensitive? That is, should we be
matching both .HTML and .html? Clearly lowercase is the One True Way,
but I don't know what kind of junk people with case-insensitive
filesystems have, or whether we should even worry about it.

For the fortran case, Gnu fortran actually processes the files differently
depending on whether the f is capitalized (it preprocesses or not).  So
there is a functional reason for using a capital letter.

For the others, I don't know.  Do people still create files named .HTML
or is that just a relic of the past?  I can't really think of a strong
argument for or against matching insensitively.

-Brandon