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

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On Dec 1, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Jari Aalto wrote:

> 2010-12-02 00:04 Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx>:
>> On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> Comprehension and ease-of-readability are far more important than visual
>> aesthetics.
> 
> You can't take that out of equation. The people that read Western
> languages, read A-Z. It's built in how we comprehend from start of
> school education.

I don't understand what you mean. People search A-Z. They don't read A-Z.
When you have tools to do the searching for you, A-Z ordering no longer
becomes useful. In an index, sure, as those are intended for scanning by
human eyes, but as actual documentation it serves no purpose.

-Kevin Ballard
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