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Re: de-alphabetizing the documentation

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2018, 21:11 UTC
Message-ID
<20180724211146.GB136514@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20180724195217.GA9366@ofb.net>
Hi,
frederik@ofb.net wrote:
> Next week I should have time to send you a patch with the manual page
> reordered...
Yay!
>               although, unless you have a special 'diff' which can
> detect when text has been moved from one place to another, I'm
> guessing it would take you even longer to check the validity of the
> patch than it would for me to create it.
Fortunately we have "git diff --color-moved".
> However, I'm happy to do this or whatever other small projects you
> would like to delegate as far as improving readability of your
> documentation. I just need to know what is likely to be accepted.

Starting with this one seems fine. Maybe people on list will have ideas for followups on top, or maybe you'll have ideas for ways others can help you, or both. ;-)

Thanks again, Jonathan

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  2. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2018
  3. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2018
  4. Eric SunshineJul 6, 2018
  5. frederik@ofb.netJul 6, 2018
  6. Jonathan NiederJul 6, 2018
  7. frederik@ofb.netJul 8, 2018
  8. frederik@ofb.netJul 24, 2018
  9. Jonathan NiederJul 24, 2018
  10. frederik@ofb.netAug 11, 2018
  11. Junio C HamanoAug 13, 2018
  12. 0/1 de-alphabetize command listFrederick Eaton, Feb 19, 2019
  13. frederik@ofb.netFeb 21, 2019
  14. frederik@ofb.netMar 11, 2019
  15. Jacob KellerMar 11, 2019
  16. Prioritize list of commands appearing in git(1), via command-list.txt. Don't invoke 'sort' in Documentation/cmd-list.perl.Frederick Eaton, Feb 19, 2019
  17. Theodore Y. Ts'oJul 7, 2018

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