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diff --git a/libxcb/xcb-proto/HACKING b/libxcb/xcb-proto/HACKING new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e954a766a --- /dev/null +++ b/libxcb/xcb-proto/HACKING @@ -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". |