When reviewing patches, it looks much nicer to have some changes shown before others, which allow better understanding of the patch before the the .c files reviewing. Introduce a default git.orderFile, in order to help developers getting the best ordering easier. Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Please provide feedback on what else to add / remove / reorder here! Changes since RFCv1: - Added Kconfig* (thanks Randy Dunlap!) - Changed Kbuild to Kbuild* (improve matching) scripts/git.orderFile | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderFile diff --git a/scripts/git.orderFile b/scripts/git.orderFile new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..819f0a957fe3 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/git.orderFile @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ + +# order file for git, to produce patches which are easier to review +# by diffing the important stuff like header changes first. +# +# one-off usage: +# git diff -O scripts/git.orderfile ... +# +# add to git config: +# git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderfile +# + +MAINTAINERS + +# Documentation +Documentation/* +*.rst + +# build system +Kbuild* +Kconfig* +Makefile* +*.mak + +# semantic patches +*.cocci + +# headers +*.h + +# code +*.c -- 2.42.0
