Re: [PATCH 15/20] gitattributes doc: document multi-line userdiff patterns
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From: Chris Torek <hidden>
Date: 2021-02-15 03:17:13
This is extremely trivial, just something to consider if you are already doing a reroll: On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 4:57 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] wrote:
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt index 90992e2136..225c17b90d 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt@@ -794,6 +794,23 @@ backslashes; the pattern above picks a line that begins with a backslash, and zero or more occurrences of `sub` followed by `section` followed by open brace, to the end of line. +Multiple patterns can be supplied by seperating them with +newlines. They will be matched one at a time and are compiled as +separate patterns, and thus the first capture in each such pattern is +`$1`, see further discussion of captures below.
This is a comma splice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice). Use a period or semicolon to fix it. (overall comment, haven't quite finished scanning the series yet but it looks good!) Chris