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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

  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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