On 9/11/23 16:44, Leonardo Bras wrote: > 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> LGTM. Thanks. Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > 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 -- ~Randy
