Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/22] re-factor softfloat and add fp16 functions

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 02/19 13:56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 February 2018 at 13:23, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> >> If you persuade git to use the --minimal, --patience or --histogram
> >> git diff option when generating these patches you'll find that it
> >> doesn't produce unreadable patches that provoke all the checkpatch
> >> warnings.
> >
> > I think this is patchew getting confused
> 
> Oh yes, sorry. Fam, can we update patchew's git config to use
>   git config --global diff.algorithm histogram
> (equivalently, algorithm = histogram in the .gitconfig) -- that
> way the patches it runs checkpatch on are more likely to be
> formatted so that they minimise spurious checkpatch output, I think.

Updated. (With s/--global/--local/ along with other diff options, in the testing
command list:

git config --local diff.renamelimit 0
git config --local diff.renames True
git config --local diff.algorithm histogram

)

Fam