From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git-pull -tip] x86: include inverse Xmas tree patches
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:25:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49CEA3CD.105@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090328190350.GA30214@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> Ordering include based on length of line minimize the
> risk of merge conflicts.
> If people just add new includes in the bottom of the list you
> are certain that a merge conflit happens.
>
> This scheme is starting to be used in several places with the
> primary advocates being David Miller and Ingo.
>
> It is getting used both for includes _and_ for local variables.
>
Personally I'd prefer alphabetic order, sorting based on length isn't a
complete ordering. Nearly all editors can sort alphabetically at the
push of a key.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-28 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-28 14:48 Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-28 15:07 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-03-28 16:48 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-28 17:16 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-28 15:07 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-28 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-28 15:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-28 16:11 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-28 16:28 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-28 19:03 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-03-28 22:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-03-28 22:37 ` Al Viro
2009-03-28 23:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-28 23:34 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-28 23:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-29 0:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-29 0:24 ` Al Viro
2009-03-29 10:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2009-03-29 0:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-29 1:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-29 7:57 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-28 15:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-03-28 23:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-29 6:38 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-29 11:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2009-03-29 14:38 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-03-28 23:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-29 5:54 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
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