Re: [PATCH 05/15] ref-filter: abstract ref format into its own struct

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  builtin/branch.c       | 14 +++++++-------
>>>  builtin/for-each-ref.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>>>  builtin/tag.c          | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>>>  builtin/verify-tag.c   | 12 ++++++------
>>>  ref-filter.c           | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>>>  ref-filter.h           | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
>>>  6 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>>
>> The patch looks good to me. So some off-topic comments:
>> I reviewed this patch from bottom up, i.e. I started looking at
>> ref-filter.h, then  ref-filter.c and then the rest. If only you had formatted
>> the patches with an orderfile. ;)
>
> As a reviewer, for this particular patchq, I actually appreciated
> that ref-filter.[ch] came at the end.  That forced me to think.
> ...
> I do want to present from Doc to header to code when I am showing my
> patch to others, so this is probably a good example that illustrates
> that the preferred presentation order is not just personal
> preference, but is different on occasion even for the same person.

So when somebody wants to do a "from design and explanation to
provider to consumer", we would probably want "doc, *.h, *.c at the
top-level and then things inside builtin/ subdirectory" order.  Of
course, on the other hand, "I do not trust me not getting swayed by
the fact that a developer more competent than me wrote the patch"
reviewer would want to use the reverse order.

Can we actually express "top-level first and then builtin/*" order
with the diff.orderfile mechanism?  It's been a while since I last
looked at the orderfile matching (which was when I originally wrote
it) and I do not offhand know if we now allow wildmatch patterns and
the directory level anchoring "/*.c" like we do in .gitignore files,
without which it would be cumbersome to make ref-filter.c listed
before builtin/branch.c in a generic way.