It's helpful to have a standard sequence of file types in patches. Applying git-diff's orderFile feature allows us to do that. Just do 'git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderfile' to enable it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This was inspired by Laszlo's patch for QEMU. Anyway it's high time somebody posts some good kvm-unit-tests bikeshedding bait! --- README | 4 ++++ scripts/git.orderfile | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderfile diff --git a/README b/README index f8f196d90bf1..73fdd526aed7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -66,3 +66,7 @@ You can add the following to .git/config to do this automatically for you: [format] subjectprefix = kvm-unit-tests PATCH +Additionally it's helpful to have a standard sequence of file types in +patches. Applying git-diff's orderFile feature allows us to do that. +The orderFile we use is scripts/git.orderfile. Adding the diff.orderFile +config (git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderfile) will enable it. diff --git a/scripts/git.orderfile b/scripts/git.orderfile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b98a0e78a37e --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/git.orderfile @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +COPYRIGHT +MAINTAINERS +*README +configure +*Makefile* +*.mak +*.py +*.bash +*/run +*.sh +*.cfg +*.lds +*.h +*.S +*.c -- 2.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
