I plan to work on this in few weeks. If anybody has more suggestion or
want to discuss the implementation let me know

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jakub Narębski <jna...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> W dniu 2014-04-03 23:44, Junio C Hamano pisze:
>>> René Scharfe <l....@web.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> With that approach you depend on the hunk header and apparently need
>>>> to add XDL_EMIT_MOREFUNCNAMES and XDL_EMIT_MOREHUNKHEADS to improve
>>>> the results.  This approach feels fragile.
>>>>
>>>> Would it perhaps be more robust to not base the implementation on diff
>>>> and instead to scan the raw file contents?
>>>
>>> That is an interesting idea.
>>>
>>> Perhaps this can be implemented as a new stage in the transformation
>>> pipeline, I wonder?  There is currently no transformation that
>>> modifies the blob contents being compared, but I do not think there
>>> is anything fundamental that prevents one from being written.  The
>>> new "limit to this function body" transformation would perhaps sit
>>> before the diffcore-rename and would transform all the blobs to
>>> empty, except for the part that is the body of the function the user
>>> is interested in.
>>
>> Well, there is 'texconv', e.g.
>>
>>   .gitattributes
>>   *.jpg diff=jpg
>>
>>   .git/config
>>   [diff "jpg"]
>>          textconv = exif
>
> ;-)  So you could define this textconv
>
>     sed -n -e '/^int main(/,/^}/p'
>
> to limit the output only to the definition of the function main().
>
>> Doesn't it fit in said place in the transformation pipeline?
>
> Not at all, unfortunately.  The textconv conversion happens in the
> final output stage and comes way too late to influence the earlier
> stages like renames and pickaxe, which will still see the whole
> contents outside the definition of the function main().
>
>
>
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