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> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since RFCv4: - Added scripts/* into "build system" section - Added "git-specific" section with this script and .gitignore - Thanks for this feedback Nicolas! Changes since RFCv3: - Added "*types.h" matching so type headers appear before regular headers - Removed line ends ($) in patterns: they previously provided a false-positive - Fixed build patterns to allow matching Kconfig, Kbuild & Makefile in any subdirectory Changes since RFCv2: - Fixed licence comment to from /**/ to # - Fixed filename in how-to comment - Fix build order: Kconfig -> Kbuild -> Makefile - Add *.mk extension - Add line-ends ($) to make sure and get the correct extensions - Thanks Masahiro Yamada for above suggestions! - 1 Ack, thanks Randy! Changes since RFCv1: - Added Kconfig* (thanks Randy Dunlap!) - Changed Kbuild to Kbuild* (improve matching) scripts/git.orderFile | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderFile diff --git a/scripts/git.orderFile b/scripts/git.orderFile new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..31649ff53d22c --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/git.orderFile @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# 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 + +# git-specific +.gitignore +scripts/git.orderFile + +# build system +*Kconfig* +*Kbuild* +*Makefile* +*.mak +*.mk +scripts/* + +# semantic patches +*.cocci + +# headers +*types.h +*.h + +# code +*.c -- 2.43.0
