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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 04:26:14PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 11/30/16 16:08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:08:27AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> >> Recent git releases support the diff.orderFile permanent setting. (In
> >> older releases, the -O option had to be specified on the command line,
> >> or in aliases, for the same effect, which was quite inconvenient.) From
> >> git-diff(1):
> >>
> >>        -O<orderfile>
> >>            Output the patch in the order specified in the <orderfile>,
> >>            which has one shell glob pattern per line. This overrides
> >>            the diff.orderFile configuration variable (see git-
> >>            config(1)). To cancel diff.orderFile, use -O/dev/null.
> >>
> >> In my experience, an order file such as:
> >>
> >> configure
> >> *Makefile*
> > 
> > Why add the * before Makefile? In fact, why * after it?
> 
> Might not be appropriate for QEMU indeed; I have that pattern because of
> files in other projects. (Actually, thanks for drawing my attention to
> it, because it should be *[Mm]akefile* :))
> 
> Thanks
> Laszlo

GNU make tries the following names, in order: 'GNUmakefile', 'makefile' and 
'Makefile'.
So I would make it just that:

GNUmakefile
makefile
Makefile

but we have helpers in .mak files so add

*.mak


> >> *.json
> >> *.txt
> >> *.h
> >> *.c
> >>
> >> that is, a priority order that goes from
> >> descriptive/declarative/abstract to imperative/specific works wonders
> >> for reviewing.
> >>
> >> Randomly picked example:
> >>
> >> [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-gpu: track and limit host memory allocations
> >> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-11/msg05144.html
> >>
> >> This patch adds several fields to several structures first, and then it
> >> does things with those new fields. If you think about what the English
> >> verb "to declare" means, it's clear you want to see the declaration
> >> first (same as the compiler), and only then how the field is put to use.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Laszlo