Hi Junio, On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Denton Liu <liu.denton@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > There are many += lists in the Makefile and, over time, they have gotten > > slightly out of order, alphabetically. Alphabetically sort all += lists > > to bring them back in order. > > ... > > Hmm. I like the general thrust, but ... > > > LIB_OBJS += combine-diff.o > > -LIB_OBJS += commit.o > > LIB_OBJS += commit-graph.o > > LIB_OBJS += commit-reach.o > > +LIB_OBJS += commit.o > > ... I do not particularly see this change (there may be similar > ones) desirable. I'd find it it be much more natural to sort > "commit-anything" after "commit", and that is true with or without > the common extension ".o" added to these entries. > > In short, flipping these entries because '.' sorts later than '-' is > making the result look "less sorted", at least to me. The problem with this argument is that it disagrees with ASCII, as `-` has code 0x2d while `.` has code 0x2e, i.e. it is lexicographically _larger_. So Denton's patch does the correct thing. Ciao, Dscho
