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Re: [PATCH] git-svn: sort the options in the --help message.

From
EWEric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date
Nov 3, 2007, 19:42 UTC
Message-ID
<20071103194212.GA28755@muzzle>
In-Reply-To
<1194116014-13964-1-git-send-email-tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr> wrote:
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> 	* git-svn.perl (&usage): Sort the various options.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
> ---
> It always annoys me when I read the output of git svn <cmd> --help that the
> options are printed in no particular order.
The above sentence belongs in the commit message.
Thanks,
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
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>  git-svn.perl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
> index 22bb47b..4900f57 100755
> --- a/git-svn.perl
> +++ b/git-svn.perl
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ Usage: $0 <command> [options] [arguments]\n
>  		next if $cmd && $cmd ne $_;
>  		next if /^multi-/; # don't show deprecated commands
>  		print $fd '  ',pack('A17',$_),$cmd{$_}->[1],"\n";
> -		foreach (keys %{$cmd{$_}->[2]}) {
> +		foreach (sort keys %{$cmd{$_}->[2]}) {
>  			# mixed-case options are for .git/config only
>  			next if /[A-Z]/ && /^[a-z]+$/i;
>  			# prints out arguments as they should be passed:
-- 
Eric Wong
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  1. git-svn: sort the options in the --help message.Benoit Sigoure, Nov 3, 2007
  2. Eric WongNov 3, 2007

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