From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SZEDER =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add.txt: Order options alphabetically Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 02:36:05 +0100 Message-ID: <20101202013605.GA5221@neumann> References: <1291218145-13016-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> <1291229622.11917.14.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <87bp55uw96.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <1291232706.11917.35.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> <8739qhuo09.fsf@picasso.cante.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Drew Northup To: Jari Aalto X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 02 02:36:15 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 1PNy5m-0003qg-VK for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:36:15 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755471Ab0LBBgJ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:36:09 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:57411 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751335Ab0LBBgI (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:36:08 -0500 Received: from localhost6.localdomain6 (p5B130DE7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.19.13.231]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Lno43-1Ol2Zl2rOB-00hLvq; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:36:06 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8739qhuo09.fsf@picasso.cante.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:13SbBr44tICbqONhBro3iR+cn0idJu1iUz59E2AJ9tV U7SaIk2buaz5x/yOQvKCG8HMCJPsIU+zPfdgUrXOD976Hr9FyM bcFVZh0++dPh8d/Jq0zm36OxoIayi2BU6uPVlh3RJCPAzrnBdP hWW1T9x0fbYuK+UdRTHB08UESHCmQa4AMtzf/mEdZkPijFjT1w ig0SOYH++Awu5vcRC8x2A== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Please don't cull Cc list. Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:28:06AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2010-12-01 21:45 Drew Northup : > > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:29 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > >> 2010-12-01 20:53 Drew Northup : > >> > (lacking a commit message to tell me), WHY? [alphabetical] > >>=20 > >> Quoting > >>=20 > >> - You read from top to bottom, therefore A-Z. > >> - GNU project uses it in manual pages. It looks good, it looks > >> professional, it looks clean. And it works when searching (=3D= no > >> oriantation problems regardless of tools; even when you prin= t on > >> paper when you don't have any computerized aids to help your= search.). > >>=20 > >> Jari > > > > THAT belongs in a commit message!!! >=20 > It does not. No need to clutter 10's of message that long in there.. It definitely does. People doing 'git log -- Documentation/git-add.txt' in the future will want to see it, just as well as people doing 'git log -- Documentation/git-commit.txt', or 'git log -- Documentation/git-reset.txt', or .... HtH, G=E1bor