Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation/config.txt: Order variables alphabetically

Hi,

jari.aalto@cante.net wrote:

Could you or some other interested person give a diff of just the lines with ::, as well as confirming that the other lines did not change, only shuffled around? It would be nice to get a sense of the net effect of the change.

Regardless of the answer, it needs justification _in the log message_. Putting this in alphabetical order may make it easier for people to decide where to add their future config variables, but they will wonder why that order, and whether it is worth changing again.

FWIW the "my man pager is broken" justification doesn't seem so strong to me. The "my hardcopy of the manual doesn't have an easy search function" seems more compelling, except that there is work in progress to fix that by splitting documentation of config vars by affected command and making gitconfig(5) proper into an index.

Hope that helps, Jonathan