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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] a suggestion to place *.c hunks last in patches
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
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  Hi,

> > Want sent a patch?
>=20
> What file for? :)

create something like scripts/git.orderfile, so people have just to run
"git config diff.orderfile scripts/git.orderfile" to enable it, and we
can refine the config without having everybody update the orderfile
manually?

> I've considered modifying
> <http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>, but that article is
> humongous already.
>=20
> 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.

Yep, adding to the wiki sounds good too.

> > Can this be automatically enabled per repo, like .gitignore, so it work=
s
> > without everybody tweaking its local git config?
>=20
> Not to my understanding.

Too bad.

cheers,
  Gerd