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From: jari.aalto@cante.net
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Subject: [PATCH] git-cherry-pick.txt: order options alphabetically
Date: Wed,  1 Dec 2010 22:02:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291233775-20619-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> (raw)

From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>


Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
---
 Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt |   57 +++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 3c96fa8..6abde39 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -18,36 +18,16 @@ working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
-<commit>...::
-	Commits to cherry-pick.
-	For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
-	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
-	Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
-	default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
-	linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
 
 -e::
 --edit::
 	With this option, 'git cherry-pick' will let you edit the commit
 	message prior to committing.
 
--x::
-	When recording the commit, append to the original commit
-	message a note that indicates which commit this change
-	was cherry-picked from.  Append the note only for cherry
-	picks without conflicts.  Do not use this option if
-	you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
-	the information is useless to the recipient.  If on the
-	other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
-	visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
-	maintenance branch for an older release from a
-	development branch), adding this information can be
-	useful.
-
--r::
-	It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
-	described above, and `-r` was to disable it.  Now the
-	default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
+--ff::
+	If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
+	cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
+	be performed.
 
 -m parent-number::
 --mainline parent-number::
@@ -70,14 +50,35 @@ OPTIONS
 This is useful when cherry-picking more than one commits'
 effect to your index in a row.
 
+-r::
+	It used to be that the command defaulted to do `-x`
+	described above, and `-r` was to disable it.  Now the
+	default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
+
 -s::
 --signoff::
 	Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
 
---ff::
-	If the current HEAD is the same as the parent of the
-	cherry-pick'ed commit, then a fast forward to this commit will
-	be performed.
+-x::
+	When recording the commit, append to the original commit
+	message a note that indicates which commit this change
+	was cherry-picked from.  Append the note only for cherry
+	picks without conflicts.  Do not use this option if
+	you are cherry-picking from your private branch because
+	the information is useless to the recipient.  If on the
+	other hand you are cherry-picking between two publicly
+	visible branches (e.g. backporting a fix to a
+	maintenance branch for an older release from a
+	development branch), adding this information can be
+	useful.
+
+<commit>...::
+	Commits to cherry-pick.
+	For a more complete list of ways to spell commits, see
+	linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
+	Sets of commits can be passed but no traversal is done by
+	default, as if the '--no-walk' option was specified, see
+	linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
-- 
1.7.2.3

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