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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] scripts: Introduce a default git.orderFile
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To:     Leonardo Bras <leobras@redhat.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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On 9/11/23 12:37, 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@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Please provide feedback on what else to add / remove / reorder here!
> 
>  scripts/git.orderFile | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderFile
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/git.orderFile b/scripts/git.orderFile
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..3434028be2f2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/git.orderFile
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +/* 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
> +Makefile*
> +*.mak

Can we have Kconfig* here also?
thanks.

> +
> +# semantic patches
> +*.cocci
> +
> +# headers
> +*.h
> +
> +# code
> +*.c

-- 
~Randy