Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] scripts: add "git.orderfile" for ordering diff hunks by pathname patterns

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 12/04/2016 11:33 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> +++ b/scripts/git.orderfile
>> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
>> +# Apply this diff order to your git configuration with the command
>> +#
>> +#   git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderfile
>> +
>> +docs/*
> 
> do we need this now? .txt is just below.
> 
>> +*.txt

I still think we want docs/* first, at which point this *.txt line
currently only adds changes to qdict-test-data.txt (should that file be
moved to live under tests/ ?)

>> +configure
>> +GNUmakefile
>> +makefile
>> +Makefile*
>> +*.mak
> 
> do these rules apply in each directory?

My understanding is that git applies similar logic to these lines as it
does to .gitignore files: if not anchored, the pattern applies to any
file in any directory; or you can start with leading / to force the
match to be anchored to a specific directory.

> I think they do but then I don't think we should list directories
> below.
> 
>> +qapi-schema*.json
>> +qapi/*.json
>> +include/qapi/visitor.h
>> +include/qapi/visitor-impl.h
>> +scripts/qapi.py
>> +scripts/*.py
>> +*.h
>> +qapi/qapi-visit-core.c
> 
> is the exact order or qapi files that important?
> I'd rather we stuck to simple wildcards without
> special casing visitors etc.

On the v1 thread, I had pointed out that I had special-cased visitor
code in some of my patches, as an example, but I'm not sure that it is
special enough to be needed for everyone.  I'm fine doing one-off tweaks
for patch series where a particular file should come first, without
making the official file have to track all those one-off tweaks.


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