git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

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

From
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date
Dec 1, 2010, 17:16 UTC
Message-ID
<87r5e1v2g8.fsf@picasso.cante.net>
In-Reply-To
<20101201165043.GF26120@burratino>
2010-12-01 18:50 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> If the goal is sorted option lists in all manpages, that will _have_
> to be automated.
Who is going to write that script? I'm afraid that will never happen.

It's easier and faster to edit. One page at a time. As time allows. Nobody is going take vacation and do it once for all. Bit by bit is better approach.

> why would I want sorted option lists in all manpages?

Does that really need an answer? You read from top to bottom, therefore A-Z. Well, GNU uses it in manula pages. It looks good, it looks professional, it looks clean. And it works when searching (= no oriantation problems).

Jari
Previous: Jonathan NiederNext: Jakub Narebski
Message 3 of 22 in “git-commit.txt: Order options alphabetically”
  1. git-commit.txt: Order options alphabeticallyjari.aalto@cante.net, Dec 1, 2010
  2. Jonathan NiederDec 1, 2010
  3. Jari AaltoDec 1, 2010
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 1, 2010
  5. Jari AaltoDec 1, 2010
  6. Jakub NarebskiDec 2, 2010
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 1, 2010
  8. Kevin BallardDec 1, 2010
  9. Jari AaltoDec 1, 2010
  10. Kevin BallardDec 1, 2010
  11. Jari AaltoDec 1, 2010
  12. Jan KrügerDec 2, 2010
  13. Jari AaltoDec 2, 2010
  14. Jakub NarebskiDec 2, 2010
  15. Jan KrügerDec 2, 2010
  16. Jari AaltoDec 1, 2010
  17. Kevin BallardDec 1, 2010
  18. Jari AaltoDec 1, 2010
  19. Kevin BallardDec 1, 2010
  20. Jari AaltoDec 2, 2010
  21. Erik Faye-LundDec 3, 2010
  22. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyDec 3, 2010

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.