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Re: [PATCH] userdiff: improve java regex for generic return types

From: Jeff King <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-09 21:00:56
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:33:08PM +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote:
Currently, the git diff hunk headers show the wrong method signature if the
method has a generic return type because the regex doesn't allow < and > in the
return type.  This patch adds those.
Thanks. It has been long enough since I used Java that there were no
generics back then, but I will take your word that this is what they
look like. ;)

The patch itself looks OK to me, but...
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
when adding the number 6 to the Arrays.asList() call in secondMethod(), the git
diff one gets is

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
diff --git a/src/main/java/MyExample.java b/src/main/java/MyExample.java
index a0f1a6b..ea37a98 100644
--- a/src/main/java/MyExample.java
+++ b/src/main/java/MyExample.java
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ public void firstMethod() {
         // followed by this,
         // and that,
         // and even more.
-        return Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
+        return Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6);
     }
 }
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
...this diff in the commit message will screw up git-am. The usual
procedure is to omit the scissors lines and just indent it.

But...
 userdiff.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
...even better than explaining it is adding a regression test, perhaps
like this one:
diff --git a/t/t4018/java-return-generic b/t/t4018/java-return-generic
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d030c26184
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4018/java-return-generic
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+class MyExample {
+    public void firstMethod() {
+        // Whatever...
+    }
+
+    public List<String> secondMethod(String RIGHT[]) {
+        // Whatever...
+        return Arrays.asList("ChangeMe");
+    }
+}
(the "ChangeMe" line will be changed, and we'll expect that the line
with "RIGHT" on it is found. We use -U1 to reduce the need for filler).

-Peff
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