From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:28:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-add.txt: Order options alphabetically
Message-ID: <8739qhuo09.fsf@picasso.cante.net>
In-Reply-To: <1291232706.11917.35.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu>

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..

> As an aside, you haven't looked at the sed and gawk manpages, have you?

There are plenty of pages that are bad examples. Let's make ours better.

Jari