From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/config.txt: Order variables alphabetically Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:10:55 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: <87vd3dv2ow.fsf@picasso.cante.net> References: <1291209174-9239-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> <201012011557.30849.jnareb@gmail.com> <20101201150917.GD6537@picasso.cante.net> <201012011737.53652.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 01 18:11:42 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 1PNqDV-0000kG-R4 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:11:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755434Ab0LARLK (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:11:10 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34922 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755387Ab0LARLK (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:11:10 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNqCw-0000Ou-Tm for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:11:06 +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 ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:11:06 +0100 Received: from jari.aalto by a91-155-187-216.elisa-laajakaista.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:11:06 +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:h7dBrW63wysojof3o4Zsjx4rjLg= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2010-12-01 18:37 Jakub Narebski : > Having related config variables together is IMVHO more important than > having config variables sorted alphabetically. That's subjective criteria. I doubt there are many related one that can't be handled with standard "see also". A small percentage of variables that "group" is bad criteria for general use. Especially when confix.txt contains somewhere 250 options. Most of the time you want to look up X. And alpha order is what doctor ordered. Same for command line options. You read zillions of scripts and cryptic options. You want to consult manual page to see what an option means. Again you're searching A-Z. Jari