From: Greg Price <price@ksplice.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:03:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Unapplied patches reminder
Message-ID: <20091207030359.GK30538@dr-wily.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7voco4gtxd.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio wrote:
> > From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
> > Subject: [PATCH] diffcore-order: Default the order file to .git/info/order.
> > Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:49:48 -0400
> > Message-ID: <1252799388-16295-1-git-send-email-geofft@mit.edu>
> >
> >     Since order files tend to be useful for all operations in the
> >     project/repository, add a default location for the order file, so that
> >     you don't have to specify -O<orderfile> on every diff or similar
> >     operation.
>
> Except that "$GIT_DIR/info/order" is a bit too generic a name ("eh,
> 'order'?  Order of what?"), I do not think this will hurt, as no existing
> repositories would have such a file that would cause any behaviour change
> to existing users.  The reason I did not queue it was because there wasn't
> any discussion on it (not even the filename being too generic) which was
> an indication that not many people are interested in such a feature.
>
> That of course can be remedied by interested people speaking out.

I never use the -O option, but if this feature were available I think
I would use it.  It would make it possible to configure a helpful
order once -- for example, putting a changelog file first in order to
compare it with the commit message -- and then always use it without
effort.

A less generic name might be 'difforder'.

Greg