Git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

IIRC (I read the git mailing list) there was a lot of arguing about whether generation numbers should be in the commit headers or stored in separate cache, and then a different fix went in to speed up "tag --contains" and the discussion was pretty much abandoned.

Re: Git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

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Post by technomancy » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 9:19 PM UTC

fr0sty wrote: post #6

The author should try adding this to his .git/info/attributes file: *.py diff=python That should make --function-context work better on python source files.

I wonder how hard it is to teach it new languages.

Re: Git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

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Post by fr0sty » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 9:43 PM UTC

technomancy wrote: post #8

fr0sty wrote: post #6

The author should try adding this to his .git/info/attributes file: *.py diff=python That should make --function-context work better on python source files.

I wonder how hard it is to teach it new languages.

All you need to do is write a regex to match. Currently supported languages are:

BibTeX, C/C++, html, java, ObjectiveC, Pascal, PHP, Python, Ruby, and TeX.

More details can be found in the gitattributes(5) manpage

Re: Git 1.7.8 changes for the everyday developer

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Post by piotrSikora » Tue, Dec 13, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

pjscott wrote: post #5

g3orge wrote: post #3

wow. I didn't even know about git grep. Very useful

It's probably my most commonly-used git command, to the point where I have it aliased to "g g".

You guys should really look into http://betterthangrep.com/ :)