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| author | Daniel Martin <consume.noise@gmail.com> | 2013-10-13 13:44:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnaud Fontaine <arnau@debian.org> | 2013-11-14 20:23:24 +0900 |
| commit | 2c024996d2ecccedcc41607e64d95862a08ba0dc (patch) | |
| tree | e27d69670c9a11db7081b5dd7a4efc70ccc67ef9 | |
| parent | 508a220f48ee1f58cb4ab10c63dbeab2e4346e86 (diff) | |
Add note on pretty patches and src/.gitattributes
Add a file HACKING describing howto to prettify patches (their hunk
headers) and add src/.gitattributes, which is necessary for that.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Martin <consume.noise@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ran Benita <ran234@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/.gitattributes | 1 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Make patches more descriptive +============================= + +By default hunk headers of a patch will look like this: + + @@ -1227,6 +1227,8 @@ authorization from the authors. + +Which is not very usefull as it doesn't give a hint where the change +happened (except for the line number). To make those hunk headers more +descriptive, i.e.: + + @@ -1227,6 +1227,8 @@ <struct name="HierarchyChange"> + +Add these 2 lines to your .git/config file: + + [diff "xcb"] + xfuncname = "(<\\b(xcb|enum|event|request|struct|union)\\b.*>)" + +For more background on this magic have a look at src/.gitattributes and +the man page gitattributes(5) chapter "Defining a custom hunk-header". diff --git a/src/.gitattributes b/src/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d345b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +*.xml diff=xcb |