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

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 11/30 13:03, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> 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? :)

This is a nice feature, thanks!

Does it make sense to have a .gitpublish file (for Stefan's git-publish script)
in QEMU.git? That way we can add a new profile option to git-publish and let it
build the command line accordingly. This is going to be helpful for those who
already use git-publish.

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

And this sounds good too.

Fam

> 
> 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
> 
>