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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