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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>
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Make patches more descriptive
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By default hunk headers of a patch will look like this:
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@@ -1227,6 +1227,8 @@ authorization from the authors.
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Which is not very usefull as it doesn't give a hint where the change
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happened (except for the line number). To make those hunk headers more
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descriptive, i.e.:
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@@ -1227,6 +1227,8 @@ <struct name="HierarchyChange">
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Add these 2 lines to your .git/config file:
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[diff "xcb"]
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xfuncname = "(<\\b(xcb|enum|event|request|struct|union)\\b.*>)"
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For more background on this magic have a look at src/.gitattributes and
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the man page gitattributes(5) chapter "Defining a custom hunk-header".
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