2010-12-01 21:45 Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:29 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > >> 2010-12-01 20:53 Drew Northup <drew.northup@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > (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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html