[RFC PATCH v3 1/1] scripts: Introduce a default git.orderFile

[RFC PATCH v3 1/1] scripts: Introduce a default git.orderFile

[Leonardo Bras]

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@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
---

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

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 | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripts/git.orderFile

diff --git a/scripts/git.orderFile b/scripts/git.orderFile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fe985046613f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/git.orderFile
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# 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
+*.h$
+
+# code
+*.c$
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