Apple's Git distribution actually carries a similar file which
annotates *.m:
https://github.com/apple-opensource/Git/blob/73/gitattributes



See comments in commit 29cf16db ("buildsys: Help git-diff
adding .gitattributes config file") for details.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Message-Id: <20220317130326.39188-1-philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com>

Git's default hunk pattern recognizer favors the C language, but it
also includes several built-in diff styles that give saner results in
other languages.  In particular, telling git to treat all .py files as
python changes the beginning of diff hunks as follows:

|  --- a/python/qemu/machine.py
|  +++ b/python/qemu/machine.py
| -@@ -337,12 +337,12 @@ class QEMUMachine:
| +@@ -337,12 +337,12 @@ def _post_shutdown(self) -> None:
|               self._qmp.close()

which makes it much easier to tell what function a patch is touching,
rather than a non-descript listing of what class contains the changes.

Sadly, our python files that don't use .py suffix (such as numerous
iotests) do not benefit from this glob.

Reported-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210215222524.1820223-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

Since commits 0979ed01 ("meson: rename .inc.h files to .h.inc")
and 139c1837 ("meson: rename included C source files to .c.inc")
'git-diff --function-context' stopped displaying C function context
correctly.
We can help git-diff by providing attributes to the .[ch].inc path
names. See:
https://git-scm.com/docs/gitattributes#_generating_diff_text



Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20201014082209.3712625-1-philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>