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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:06:09 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Christian Brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r234577 - head/usr.bin/stat
Message-ID:  <20120621140609.GA7051@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4FE2DF35.5040804@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201204221818.q3MIIn4Y051313@svn.freebsd.org> <20120422184553.GA85374@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <4FE2DF35.5040804@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:45:41AM +0200, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> On 4/22/12 20:45 , Steve Kargl wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 06:18:49PM +0000, Christian Brueffer wrote:
> >>Author: brueffer
> >>Date: Sun Apr 22 18:18:49 2012
> >>New Revision: 234577
> >>URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/234577
> >>
> >>Log:
> >>   Remove duplicate -l description.
> >>
> >>   Submitted by:	Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>
> >>   MFC after:	1 week
> >
> >The patch should have also fixed the misordering
> >of the -n, -qi, and -x options.
> >
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> sorry for the late reply.  Could you say more specifically how you
> would arrange the order?  From a small sampling of our manpages, it
> seems we don't have "one true" style of ordering options (except from
> alphabetically, see attached patch).
> 
> Some manpages order A-Z, then a-z, while others (Apple and OpenBSD seem 
> to do this) order AaBb...Zz.
> 

Upon further inspection, the order of the description of the
options follows the order of the option in the SYNOPSIS.  I
suppose the manpage is fine.

-- 
Steve



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