Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] Makefile: alphabetically sort += lists

> Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > There are many += lists in the Makefile and, over time, they have gotten
> > slightly out of order, alphabetically. Alphabetically sort all += lists
> > to bring them back in order.
> > ...
>
> Hmm.  I like the general thrust, but ...
>
> >  LIB_OBJS += combine-diff.o
> > -LIB_OBJS += commit.o
> >  LIB_OBJS += commit-graph.o
> >  LIB_OBJS += commit-reach.o
> > +LIB_OBJS += commit.o
>
> ... I do not particularly see this change (there may be similar
> ones) desirable.  I'd find it it be much more natural to sort
> "commit-anything" after "commit", and that is true with or without
> the common extension ".o" added to these entries.
>
> In short, flipping these entries because '.' sorts later than '-' is
> making the result look "less sorted", at least to me.