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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:45:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhbts3285.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vpr8g32ht.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed\, 21 Oct 2009 13\:39\:58 -0700")

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

> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/fetch-options.txt |   48 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>  1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
> Does this even make sense when git-pull.txt itself includes files other
> than this one?  fetch-options.txt may begin with the description of -a
> that is very early in the alphabetical sequence, but git-pull.txt includes
> merge-options.txt before this file, whose contents would describe what
> probably would come after -a (I didn't check).  Also git-pull.txt itself
> has description of --rebase and --no-rebase that definitely come before -a
> (I did check).

Ah, in your defense ;-) I think you looked only at git-fetch.txt without
checking where else this file is included.  Then the patch certainly is
understandable.  It would probably make git-fetch.{1,html} easier to scan,
while making things not worse for git-pull.{1,html}

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-21 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-21 20:07 [PATCH] Documentation/fetch-options.txt: order options alphabetically Jari Aalto
2009-10-21 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-21 20:45   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-10-22  9:23     ` Jari Aalto
2009-10-22 10:21     ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-10-22 11:25       ` Jeff King
2009-10-22 14:14       ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-pull.txt: Add subtitles above included option files Jari Aalto

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