Re: [PATCH] git-add.txt: Order options alphabetically

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Dec 2, 2010, 01:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20101202013605.GA5221@neumann>
In-Reply-To: <8739qhuo09.fsf@picasso.cante.net>

Please don't cull Cc list.

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:28:06AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:

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> 2010-12-01 21:45 Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:29 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> >
> >> 2010-12-01 20:53 Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>:
> >> > (lacking a commit message to tell me), WHY? [alphabetical]
> >> 
> >> Quoting <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/162552>
> >> 
> >>     - 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..

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, Gábor