When reviewing patches, it looks much nicer to have some changes shown before others, which allow better understanding of the patch before the the .c files reviewing. Introduce a default git.orderFile, in order to help developers getting the best ordering easier.
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| 1 | # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 | ||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | # order file for git, to produce patches which are easier to review | ||
| 4 | # by diffing the important stuff like header changes first. | ||
| 5 | # | ||
| 6 | # one-off usage: | ||
| 7 | # git diff -O scripts/git.orderFile ... | ||
| 8 | # | ||
| 9 | # add to git config: | ||
| 10 | # git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderFile | ||
| 11 | # | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | MAINTAINERS | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | # Documentation | ||
| 16 | Documentation/* | ||
| 17 | *.rst | ||
| 18 | |||
| 19 | # git-specific | ||
| 20 | .gitignore | ||
| 21 | scripts/git.orderFile | ||
| 22 | |||
| 23 | # build system | ||
| 24 | Kconfig* | ||
| 25 | */Kconfig* | ||
| 26 | Kbuild* | ||
| 27 | */Kbuild* | ||
| 28 | Makefile* | ||
| 29 | */Makefile* | ||
| 30 | *.mak | ||
| 31 | *.mk | ||
| 32 | scripts/* | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | # semantic patches | ||
| 35 | *.cocci | ||
| 36 | |||
| 37 | # headers | ||
| 38 | *types.h | ||
| 39 | *.h | ||
| 40 | |||
| 41 | # code | ||
| 42 | *.c | ||