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

[Gerd Hoffmann]

>   git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.orderfile

> diff --git a/scripts/git.orderfile b/scripts/git.orderfile
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..600a2e4fc540
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/git.orderfile
> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@

Is it possible to have comments in here?  So we can place the git config
command above into into this file too?

> +*.txt
> +configure
> +GNUmakefile
> +makefile
> +Makefile

We also have Makefile.objs and Makefile.target, so "Makefile*" (like the
first version had IIRC) should work better.

> +*.mak
> +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

I guess there is more which could be placed here (i.e. files holding
infrastructure which makes sense to see first).  But we can easily
refine that incrementally.  That is the point to have this file in the
repo in the first place ;)

cheers,
  Gerd