diff: funcname and word patterns for perl

The default function name discovery already works quite well for Perl
code... with the exception of here-documents (or rather their ending).

 sub foo {
	print <<END
 here-document
 END
	return 1;
 }

The default funcname pattern treats the unindented END line as a
function declaration and puts it in the @@ line of diff and "grep
--show-function" output.

With a little knowledge of perl syntax, we can do better.  You can
try it out by adding "*.perl diff=perl" to the gitattributes file.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
index 5a7f9364299cb4ed34a7dc35688c9bddcd35ff3d..e59b87829374bfd72bc1d3375cbe0694e52e116e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitattributes.txt
@@ -494,6 +494,8 @@ patterns are available:
 
 - `pascal` suitable for source code in the Pascal/Delphi language.
 
+- `perl` suitable for source code in the Perl language.
+
 - `php` suitable for source code in the PHP language.
 
 - `python` suitable for source code in the Python language.

diff --git a/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh b/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
index 0a61b57b5f6f00ae4c0734a34ce45c0ba1fcf098..364693062399228cd6a18b52a21db173519d8e94 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
+++ b/t/t4018-diff-funcname.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ EOF
 
 sed 's/beer\\/beer,\\/' < Beer.java > Beer-correct.java
 
-builtin_patterns="bibtex cpp csharp fortran html java objc pascal php python ruby tex"
+builtin_patterns="bibtex cpp csharp fortran html java objc pascal perl php python ruby tex"
 for p in $builtin_patterns
 do
        test_expect_success "builtin $p pattern compiles" '

diff --git a/userdiff.c b/userdiff.c
index 2d5453697aaf5287f524b72d0088ee15679e0691..fc2afe33a7640677fbf3a10bbdbec25b023f752c 100644 (file)
--- a/userdiff.c
+++ b/userdiff.c
@@ -61,6 +61,21 @@ PATTERNS("pascal",
         "|[-+0-9.e]+|0[xXbB]?[0-9a-fA-F]+"
         "|<>|<=|>=|:=|\\.\\."
         "|[^[:space:]]|[\x80-\xff]+"),
+PATTERNS("perl",
+        "^[ \t]*package .*;\n"
+        "^[ \t]*sub .* \\{",
+        /* -- */
+        "[[:alpha:]_'][[:alnum:]_']*"
+        "|0[xb]?[0-9a-fA-F_]*"
+        /* taking care not to interpret 3..5 as (3.)(.5) */
+        "|[0-9a-fA-F_]+(\\.[0-9a-fA-F_]+)?([eE][-+]?[0-9_]+)?"
+        "|=>|-[rwxoRWXOezsfdlpSugkbctTBMAC>]|~~|::"
+        "|&&=|\\|\\|=|//=|\\*\\*="
+        "|&&|\\|\\||//|\\+\\+|--|\\*\\*|\\.\\.\\.?"
+        "|[-+*/%.^&<>=!|]="
+        "|=~|!~"
+        "|<<|<>|<=>|>>"
+        "|[^[:space:]]"),
 PATTERNS("php",
         "^[\t ]*(((public|protected|private|static)[\t ]+)*function.*)$\n"
         "^[\t ]*(class.*)$",