So, I have a regex to select words so that I can focus on the actual changes. But then I noticed that it did something weird. It grouped some parenthesis with another word. I generated a minimal example for that line and it was reproducible.
Before: var result = ((res.State == ResultState.Succeeded) && string.IsNullOrEmpty(res.ErrorCode) )? (byte)0 : (byte)1; After: var result = res.State == ResultState.Succeeded ? (byte)0 : (byte)1; Diff: $ git diff2 --no-index b a warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in b. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in a. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory diff --git a/b b/a index 4e3604a8e..619d21e4e 100644 --- a/b +++ b/a @@ -1 +1 @@ var result = [-((res-]{+res+}.State == ResultState.Succeeded[-) && string.IsNullOrEmpty(res.ErrorCode) )-] ? (byte)0 : (byte)1; I tried to make a smaller example and it didn't cause the issue. Before: var abc = ((xyz.Stuff == other_stuff) && stuff.yay(question) ? yes : no; After: var abc = xyz.Stuff == other_stuff ? yes : no; Diff: $ git diff2 --no-index b a warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in b. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in a. The file will have its original line endings in your working directory diff --git a/b b/a index df18ca34e..1024d6b68 100644 --- a/b +++ b/a @@ -1 +1 @@ var abc =[-((-] xyz.Stuff == other_stuff[-) && stuff.yay(question)-] ? yes : no; So, my question is, what's going on here? The alias is as follows: diff2 = diff --color=always --ignore-space-change '--word-diff-regex=((\\r\\n?|\\n\\r?)[\\t ]*)?([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*|0([xX]([0-9][a-fA-F])+|[0-7]+|[bB][01]+)|[1-9][0-9]*(\\.[0-9]+)?([eE][0-9]+|[pP][0-9a-fA-F])?|\\S)(\\r\\n?|\\n\\r?)?' -p -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/git-users/8f4de133-eeb7-435c-a74e-1cbcffe59344n%40googlegroups.com.