Re: [PATCH] Add -O<orderfile> option to diff-* brothers.

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 28, 2005, 11:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20050528111238.GA1036@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmufwu8w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sat, May 28, 2005 at 11:54:39AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> A new diffcore filter diffcore-order is introduced.  This takes
> a text file each of whose line is a shell glob pattern.  Patches
> matching the glob pattern on an earlier line in the file are
> output before patches matching the glob pattern on a later line,
> and patches not matching any glob pattern is output last.
> 
> A typical orderfile for git project would probably look like
> this:
> 
>     README
>     Documentation
>     Makefile
>     *.h
>     *.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

Hmm, is this really useful in practice? diff itself doesn't appear to have it either, and I haven't seen something like this before. So is it worth the code?

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