Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH v4 1/1] scripts: Introduce a default git.orderFile

[Leonardo Bras Soares Passos]

On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 10:25 AM Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 03:28:51PM -0300, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> > From: Leonardo Bras <leobras@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 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>
> > ---
> >
> > Please provide feedback on what else to add / remove / reorder here!
> >
> > 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 | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderFile
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/git.orderFile b/scripts/git.orderFile
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..7cef02cbba3c
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/scripts/git.orderFile
> > @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
> > +# 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
> > +*Kconfig*
> > +*Kbuild*
> > +*Makefile*
> > +*.mak
> > +*.mk
>
> I'd like to see 'scripts/*' here, too, to have the build system stuff
> together.  Possibly it makes sense to add .gitignore files here too.
>
> Kind regards,
> Nicolas

Sure, I will add it and send a v5 soon.

Thanks!

>
>
> > +
> > +# semantic patches
> > +*.cocci
> > +
> > +# headers
> > +*types.h
> > +*.h
> > +
> > +# code
> > +*.c
> > --
> > 2.42.0
> >
>