thodg/libgit2

diff --git a/git.git-authors b/git.git-authors
index 7e53d66..7c72c4b 100644
--- a/git.git-authors
+++ b/git.git-authors
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ ok	Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
 ok	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
 ok	Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
 ok	Florian Forster <octo@verplant.org>
+ok	Gustaf Hendeby <hendeby@isy.liu.se>
 ok	Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
 ok	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
 ok	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
diff --git a/src/userdiff.h b/src/userdiff.h
index 3187615..93b4d0d 100644
--- a/src/userdiff.h
+++ b/src/userdiff.h
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ PATTERNS("java",
 	 "|[-+*/<>%&^|=!]="
 	 "|--|\\+\\+|<<=?|>>>?=?|&&|\\|\\|"),
 
+PATTERNS("matlab",
+	 "^[[:space:]]*((classdef|function)[[:space:]].*)$|^%%[[:space:]].*$",
+	 "[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*|[-+0-9.e]+|[=~<>]=|\\.[*/\\^']|\\|\\||&&"),
+
 PATTERNS("objc",
 	 /* Negate C statements that can look like functions */
 	 "!^[ \t]*(do|for|if|else|return|switch|while)\n"