Re: [Qemu-devel] a suggestion to place *.c hunks last in patches

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 11/30/16 11:55, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mi, 2016-11-30 at 11:08 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> Recent git releases support the diff.orderFile permanent setting.
> 
> Cool.
> 
>> configure
>> *Makefile*
>> *.json
>> *.txt
>> *.h
>> *.c
> 
> I'd put *.txt to the head so doc updates come first.

Good idea, yes.

> Otherwise the order looks good to me.
> 
> Want sent a patch?

What file for? :)

I've considered modifying
<http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>, but that article is
humongous already.

Nonetheless, section "Make code motion patches easy to review" mentions
some diff.* settings, so I guess a new section after it ("Format
declarative and abstract changes near the top") would be appropriate, if
there's no disagreement.

> Can this be automatically enabled per repo, like .gitignore, so it works
> without everybody tweaking its local git config?

Not to my understanding.

Thanks!
Laszlo