[patch 12/86] .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files

Andrew Morton
2019-12-05T00:50:20Z

From: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Subject: .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files

Git is gaining support to display the closest node to the diff in the
hunk header via the 'dts' diff driver. Use that driver for all dts and
dtsi files so we can gain some more context on where the diff is. Taking
a recent commit in the kernel dts files you can see the difference.

With this patch and an updated git

: diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi
: index 62e07e1197cc..4c38426a6969 100644
: --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi
: +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi
: @@ -289,5 +289,29 @@ vdd_hdmi: regulator@1 {
: gpio = <&gpio TEGRA194_MAIN_GPIO(A, 3) GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
: enable-active-high;
: };
: +
: + vdd_3v3_pcie: regulator@2 {
: + compatible = "regulator-fixed";

vs. without this patch

: diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi
: index 62e07e1197cc..4c38426a6969 100644
: --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi
: +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi
: @@ -289,5 +289,29 @@
: gpio = <&gpio TEGRA194_MAIN_GPIO(A, 3) GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
: enable-active-high;
: };
: +
: + vdd_3v3_pcie: regulator@2 {
: + compatible = "regulator-fixed";

You can see that we don't know what the context node is because it isn't
shown after the '@@'.

dts is not released yet but it is staged to be in the next release[1].
One can probably build git from source and try it out.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=d49c2c3466d2c8cb0b3d0a43e6b406b07078fdb1

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191004212311.141538-1-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

.gitattributes | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/.gitattributes~gitattributes-use-dts-diff-driver-for-dts-files
+++ a/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
*.c diff=cpp
*.h diff=cpp
+*.dtsi diff=dts
+*.dts diff=dts
_