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

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 11/30/16 13:29, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>>> Want sent a patch?
>>
>> 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?

Good idea -- I didn't expect this to work, but it actually does.

The -O command line option interprets a relative pathname relative to
the working directory. However, if you place a relative pathname in
diff.orderFile in .git/config, then git will look for the order file
relative to the project root directory, not relative to your working
directory (which could be any subdirectory of the project root directory).

> 
>> I've considered modifying
>> <http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>, but that article is
>> humongous already.
>>
>> 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 works
>>> without everybody tweaking its local git config?
>>
>> Not to my understanding.
> 
> Too bad.

I think recommending a simple git config command in the wiki, like you
write above, should be fine.

I guess I'll add this item (the patch and the wiki update) to my todo
list... :)

Thanks
Laszlo