Ahh, I didn't see that they were not grouped by object types, features or any meaningful axis. That explains it (i.e. I can now understand why the original list was ordered differently from the final order). On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Junio, > > On 2015-06-19 22:21, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Some kinds of errors are intrinsically unrecoverable (e.g. errors while >>> uncompressing objects). It does not make sense to allow demoting them to >>> mere warnings. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> >>> --- >>> fsck.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- >>> t/t5504-fetch-receive-strict.sh | 11 +++++++++++ >>> 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c >>> index 21e3052..a4fbce3 100644 >>> --- a/fsck.c >>> +++ b/fsck.c >>> @@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ >>> #include "refs.h" >>> #include "utf8.h" >>> >>> +#define FSCK_FATAL -1 >>> + >>> #define FOREACH_MSG_ID(FUNC) \ >>> + /* fatal errors */ \ >>> + FUNC(NUL_IN_HEADER, FATAL) \ >>> + FUNC(UNTERMINATED_HEADER, FATAL) \ >>> /* errors */ \ >>> FUNC(BAD_DATE, ERROR) \ >>> FUNC(BAD_DATE_OVERFLOW, ERROR) \ >>> @@ -39,11 +44,9 @@ >>> FUNC(MISSING_TYPE, ERROR) \ >>> FUNC(MISSING_TYPE_ENTRY, ERROR) \ >>> FUNC(MULTIPLE_AUTHORS, ERROR) \ >>> - FUNC(NUL_IN_HEADER, ERROR) \ >>> FUNC(TAG_OBJECT_NOT_TAG, ERROR) \ >>> FUNC(TREE_NOT_SORTED, ERROR) \ >>> FUNC(UNKNOWN_TYPE, ERROR) \ >>> - FUNC(UNTERMINATED_HEADER, ERROR) \ >> >> I think the end result very much makes a good sense, but why didn't >> this list enumerate the errors in the above "final" order from the >> beginning in 02/19? > > Because they are alphabetically ordered, within message type categories, that is; this helped me develop with more ease (you do not want to know how many hundreds of times I ran an interactive rebase on all of these patches...). > > And from the point of a development story (which a patch series is), it would puzzle me, as a reader, if those two out of all the others were in front in 02/19, when they are no different from the others at that stage. > > Ciao, > Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in