On Thu, Apr 26 2018, Ulrich Windl wrote: > Thanks for that. It sounds plausible, but I wonder why it works automagically > for C, but not for Java (Politcal reasons put aside): Using ".c" for C is > about > as common as using ".java" for Java ;-)
It has a bit to do with it being in C, but not in the way you think. By default Git doesn't enable the "cpp" driver either for *.c, but it just so happens to do the right thing more of the time because the default heuristic is basically to search for a nearby line that doesn't start with whitespace for context. This doesn't work for Java because your methods tend to be indented since they're part of the class you're working on.
