[Swan-dev] pluto: no code change. just sort the getopt options

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Tue Sep 12 19:08:59 UTC 2017


commit 29c0396e3ec932839d769f68b71fcb2a64094880
Author: Antony Antony <antony at phenome.org>
Date:   Tue Sep 12 01:47:45 2017 +0200

    pluto: no code change. just sort the getopt options

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These were intentionally in a logical order (grouping).  Definitely
not alphabetical.  This remains in the comment:
 * The table should be ordered to maximize the clarity of --help.

If you changed the order, I hope you carefully fixed where the
linebreaks appear.  As explained in the comment, a '>' after the
'\0' causes a linebreak in the --help output.

Perhaps the original structure makes less sense now the collection has
grown so vast.

Perhaps people who added or removed options didn't bother maintaining
these secondary properties.

This change makes me sad.



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