.gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files

Git supports a builtin Rust diff driver [1] since v2.23.0 (2019).

It improves the choice of hunk headers in some cases, such as
diffs within methods, since those are indented in Rust within
an `impl` block, and therefore the default diff driver would
pick the outer `impl` block instead (rather than the method
where the changed code is).

For instance, with the default diff driver:

    @@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ impl fmt::Write for RawFormatter {
             // Amount that we can copy. `saturating_sub` ensures we get 0 if `pos` goes past `end`.
             let len_to_copy = core::cmp::min(pos_new, self.end).saturating_sub(self.pos);

    +        test_diff_driver();
    +
             if len_to_copy > 0 {
                 // SAFETY: If `len_to_copy` is non-zero, then we know `pos` has not gone past `end`
                 // yet, so it is valid for write per the type invariants.

With the Rust diff driver:

    @@ -455,6 +455,8 @@ fn write_str(&mut self, s: &str) -> fmt::Result {
             // Amount that we can copy. `saturating_sub` ensures we get 0 if `pos` goes past `end`.
             let len_to_copy = core::cmp::min(pos_new, self.end).saturating_sub(self.pos);

    +        test_diff_driver();
    +
             if len_to_copy > 0 {
                 // SAFETY: If `len_to_copy` is non-zero, then we know `pos` has not gone past `end`
                 // yet, so it is valid for write per the type invariants.

Thus set the `rust` diff driver for `*.rs` source files.

The Rust repository also does so since 2020 [2].

Link: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_defining_a_custom_hunk_header
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/78882
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230418233048.335281-1-ojeda@kernel.org
[ Added link to Rust repository ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>

diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index c9ba5bfc403600a8c9418fd4503574bcb69dc87e..2325c529e1854545a1b611b72ad156bdbc4319cf 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 *.[ch] diff=cpp
 *.dts diff=dts
 *.dts[io] diff=dts
+*.rs diff=rust