[PATCH] Set git diff driver for C source code files

From	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] Set git diff driver for C source code files
Date	2016-09-07 14:40 +0200
Message-ID	<seKj0-8cn-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	SUSE Linux

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Git can be told to apply language-specific rules when generating
diffs. Enable this for C source code files (*.c and *.h) so that
function names are printed right. Specifically, doing so prevents
"git diff" from mistakenly considering unindented goto labels as
function names.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
 .gitattributes |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-4.7/.gitattributes	2016-09-07 14:07:23.042138220 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.c   diff=cpp
+*.h   diff=cpp

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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