From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add.txt: Order options alphabetically Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:28:06 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: <8739qhuo09.fsf@picasso.cante.net> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 01 23:28:27 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 1PNvA1-0007Gx-8d for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:28:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755978Ab0LAW2U (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:28:20 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37545 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750992Ab0LAW2T (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 17:28:19 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNv9u-0007DM-0k for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:28:18 +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 23:28:18 +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 23:28:18 +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:miI8fhV83mnozRcnnR4+1pBRwy4= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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] >> >> Quoting >> >> - 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 (= no >> oriantation problems regardless of tools; even when you print on >> paper when you don't have any computerized aids to help your search.). >> >> Jari > > THAT belongs in a commit message!!! It does not. No need to clutter 10's of message that long in there.. > As an aside, you haven't looked at the sed and gawk manpages, have you? There are plenty of pages that are bad examples. Let's make ours better. Jari