From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit.txt: Order options alphabetically Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:05:59 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: <8762vdt7oo.fsf@picasso.cante.net> References: <1291215526-11428-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> <20101201165043.GF26120@burratino> <87r5e1v2g8.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <7vzkspuw8g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <87r5e1t93o.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <2C3777CB-2DDD-4FF5-842B-23F7EF838611@sb.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 02 00:10:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNvoV-0001E3-5A for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:10:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756557Ab0LAXKI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 18:10:08 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:54905 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756525Ab0LAXKH (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 18:10:07 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNvoK-000160-FW for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:10:04 +0100 Received: from a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi ([91.155.187.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:10:04 +0100 Received: from jari.aalto by a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:10:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kp4MquAH80uRJWf5sXUYXIVUEmc= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2010-12-02 00:49 Kevin Ballard : > You may want to invest in a spell-checker. > ... Manaula pages are not primarily used to learn things, they are > used as reference. > > Most certainly they are used to learn things. Especially with tools like git. > Don't know what options you can give to git-diff? Read the manpage! That little word "primarily." You don't find anyone who learnt from manual page first is person is on his 20's. Google is full of Git videos. Guess which won the sexiest contest. I'm addressing the current audience, this generation, not old farts like me. Linus, Hamano et all, when computers were Golden age and Z-something. Jari