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Re: [PATCH 3/9] Docs: send-email: Man page option ordering

From
Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date
Oct 1, 2008, 20:34 UTC
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<20081001032701.GC24513@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On 30 Sep 2008, at 10:27 PM, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:58:26AM -0500, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> Now the man page lists the options in alphabetical
>> order (in terms of the 'main' part of an option's
>> name).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
>
> After following this series through a number of revisions,
> it looks good to me now. So
>
> Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>
> for the whole series.
>
> I believe this particular patch is probably redundant, since
> 8/9 just re-orders the manpage again later. So it could be
> dropped if somebody feels like doing the work to rebase the
> later patches.

I would suggest just leaving it there; it fixes a genuine problem regardless of what the future patches do.

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Message 44 of 45 in “Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same options”
  1. 1/8 Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same optionsMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  2. 2/8 Docs: send-email usage text much sexierMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  3. 3/8 Docs: send-email: Man page option orderingMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  4. 4/8 send-email: change --no-validate to boolean --[no-]validateMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  5. 5/8 Docs: send-email: --chain_reply_to -> --[no-]chain-reply-toMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  6. 6/8 Docs: Arranged config options in man pageMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  7. 7/8 Docs: send-email: Added all config variables to man endMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  8. 8/8 Docs: config: send-email config options includedMichael Witten, Sep 28, 2008
  9. Jeff KingSep 28, 2008
  10. Michael WittenSep 28, 2008
  11. Jeff KingSep 28, 2008
  12. Jeff KingSep 28, 2008
  13. Michael WittenSep 28, 2008
  14. Jeff KingSep 28, 2008
  15. Jeff KingSep 28, 2008
  16. Michael WittenSep 28, 2008
  17. bash completion: Add --[no-]-validate to "git send-email"Teemu Likonen, Sep 28, 2008
  18. Teemu LikonenSep 28, 2008
  19. Jakub NarebskiSep 28, 2008
  20. Michael WittenSep 28, 2008
  21. Jakub NarebskiSep 29, 2008
  22. Jeff KingSep 29, 2008
  23. 6/9 Docs: send-email: Remove unnecessary config variable descriptionMichael Witten, Sep 29, 2008
  24. 7/9 send-email: Completely replace --signed-off-cc with --signed-off-by-ccMichael Witten, Sep 29, 2008
  25. 8/9 Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for --help textMichael Witten, Sep 29, 2008
  26. 9/9 Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man textMichael Witten, Sep 29, 2008
  27. Jeff KingSep 29, 2008
  28. Miklos VajnaSep 28, 2008
  29. Michael WittenSep 28, 2008
  30. Jeff KingSep 29, 2008
  31. 8/9 Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man textMichael Witten, Sep 29, 2008
  32. 9/9 send-email: signedoffcc -> signedoffbycc, but handle bothMichael Witten, Sep 29, 2008
  33. Jeff KingSep 29, 2008
  34. 1/9 Docs: send-email's usage text and man page mention same optionsMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  35. 2/9 Docs: send-email usage text much sexierMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  36. 3/9 Docs: send-email: Man page option orderingMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  37. 4/9 send-email: change --no-validate to boolean --[no-]validateMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  38. 5/9 Docs: send-email: --chain_reply_to -> --[no-]chain-reply-toMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  39. 6/9 Docs: send-email: Remove unnecessary config variable descriptionMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  40. 7/9 Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for --help textMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  41. 8/9 Docs: send-email: Create logical groupings for man textMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  42. 9/9 send-email: signedoffcc -> signedoffbycc, but handle bothMichael Witten, Sep 30, 2008
  43. Jeff KingOct 1, 2008
  44. Michael WittenOct 1, 2008
  45. Shawn O. PearceOct 1, 2008

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