On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > Recent git releases support the diff.orderFile permanent setting. (In > older releases, the -O option had to be specified on the command line, > or in aliases, for the same effect, which was quite inconvenient.) From > git-diff(1): > > -O<orderfile> > Output the patch in the order specified in the <orderfile>, > which has one shell glob pattern per line. This overrides > the diff.orderFile configuration variable (see git- > config(1)). To cancel diff.orderFile, use -O/dev/null. > > In my experience, an order file such as: > > configure > *Makefile* > *.json > *.txt > *.h > *.c > > that is, a priority order that goes from > descriptive/declarative/abstract to imperative/specific works wonders > for reviewing.
Thanks, you are a gentleman and a scholar! I've set it in my global git config. Stefan
