From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jari Aalto Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-commit.txt: Order options alphabetically Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:16:07 +0200 Organization: Private Message-ID: <87r5e1v2g8.fsf@picasso.cante.net> References: <1291215526-11428-1-git-send-email-jari.aalto@cante.net> <20101201165043.GF26120@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 01 18:16:45 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 1PNqIN-0003rr-DX for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:16:43 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755424Ab0LARQV (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:16:21 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55912 "EHLO lo.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755367Ab0LARQT (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:16:19 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNqHy-0003ep-LP for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:16:18 +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 18:16:18 +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 18:16:18 +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:I11rT6mbwH6Ng/US/fhm8p05+RI= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2010-12-01 18:50 Jonathan Nieder : > If the goal is sorted option lists in all manpages, that will _have_ > to be automated. Who is going to write that script? I'm afraid that will never happen. It's easier and faster to edit. One page at a time. As time allows. Nobody is going take vacation and do it once for all. Bit by bit is better approach. > why would I want sorted option lists in all manpages? Does that really need an answer? You read from top to bottom, therefore A-Z. Well, GNU uses it in manula pages. It looks good, it looks professional, it looks clean. And it works when searching (= no oriantation problems). Jari