Hi Linus,
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Kyle Huey <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Presumably he's done:
>>>
>>> $ git config diff.context 8
>>
>> Indeed. In my case it dates back to my days hacking on Firefox, which
>> wants 8 lines of context for patches. I'll remove it.
>
> You can make those kinds of options per-repository rather than
> user-global, so you can keep the 8-line thing for firefox without
> having it for the kernel.
>
> Not that it *hurts* for the kernel, but it just looked odd to me
> because the patch looked so much bigger. More context lines can
> obviously help with ambiguous cases, but we very seldom have that kind
> of ambiguity.
Having a larger default for DTS source files could be a good idea, though.
I regularly use -U10 to verify DTS patches were applied correctly.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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-- Linus Torvalds
