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 @@ 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".