[RFC PATCH v4 1/1] scripts: Introduce a default git.orderFile

From: Leonardo Bras
Date: Wed Sep 13 2023 - 03:57:04 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Please provide feedback on what else to add / remove / reorder here!

Changes since RFCv3:
- Added "*types.h" matching so type headers appear before reguler headers
- Removed line ends ($) in patterns: they previously provided a
false-positive
- Fixed build patterns to allow matching Kconfig, Kbuild & Makefile
in any subdirectory

Changes since RFCv2:
- Fixed licence comment to from /**/ to #
- Fixed filename in how-to comment
- Fix build order: Kconfig -> Kbuild -> Makefile
- Add *.mk extension
- Add line-ends ($) to make sure and get the correct extensions
- Thanks Masahiro Yamada for above suggestions!
- 1 Ack, thanks Randy!

Changes since RFCv1:
- Added Kconfig* (thanks Randy Dunlap!)
- Changed Kbuild to Kbuild* (improve matching)


scripts/git.orderFile | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderFile

diff --git a/scripts/git.orderFile b/scripts/git.orderFile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7cef02cbba3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/git.orderFile
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+# order file for git, to produce patches which are easier to review
+# by diffing the important stuff like header changes first.
+#
+# one-off usage:
+# git diff -O scripts/git.orderFile ...
+#
+# add to git config:
+# git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderFile
+#
+
+MAINTAINERS
+
+# Documentation
+Documentation/*
+*.rst
+
+# build system
+*Kconfig*
+*Kbuild*
+*Makefile*
+*.mak
+*.mk
+
+# semantic patches
+*.cocci
+
+# headers
+*types.h
+*.h
+
+# code
+*.c
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