On Fri, 12/02 15:33, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 02.12.2016 11:40, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > When passed to git-diff (and to every other git command producing diffs
> > and/or diffstats) with "-O" or "diff.orderFile", this list of patterns
> > will place the more declarative / abstract hunks first, while changes to
> > imperative code / details will be near the end of the patches. This saves
> > on scrolling / searching and makes for easier reviewing.
> > 
> > We intend to advise contributors in the Wiki to run
> > 
> >   git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderfile
> > 
> > once, as part of their initial setup, before formatting their first (or,
> > for repeat contributors, next) patches.
> > 
> > See the "-O" option and the "diff.orderFile" configuration variable in
> > git-diff(1) and git-config(1).
> > 
> > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Eric Blake <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Fam Zheng <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <[email protected]>
> > Cc: John Snow <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > 
> > Notes:
> >     I think I managed to incorporate everyone's feedback!
> > 
> >  scripts/git.orderfile | 15 +++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderfile
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/git.orderfile b/scripts/git.orderfile
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..600a2e4fc540
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/scripts/git.orderfile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> > +*.txt
> 
> We also have *.md. (OK, OK, we have a single docs/bitmaps.md, but maybe
> it's going to be more in the future. :-))

Maybe just insert 'docs/*' here? I'm not sure if it works for the subdirs,
though.

Fam

> 
> Max
> 
> > +configure
> > +GNUmakefile
> > +makefile
> > +Makefile
> > +*.mak
> > +qapi-schema*.json
> > +qapi/*.json
> > +include/qapi/visitor.h
> > +include/qapi/visitor-impl.h
> > +scripts/qapi.py
> > +scripts/*.py
> > +*.h
> > +qapi/qapi-visit-core.c
> > +*.c
> > 
> 
> 




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