Re: [bug #24974] Document that comm's option "-1", "-2" and "-3" can be combined

[Eric Blake]

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According to Pádraig Brady on 12/1/2008 10:15 AM:
> Bo Borgerson wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> p.s. Those new --check-order --nocheck-order options confuse me.
>>> When they were added I only took a quick look at the implementation
>>> rather than the interface (which Bo Borgerson kindly sped up for us).
>>> Perhaps something like this would be clearer:
>>>
>>>   --check-order={none,mismatch,unsorted}
>>>   By default --check-order=mismatch is enabled.

I like that proposal.

>> but it should be possible to allow both:
>>
>> --nocheck-order => --check-order=none
>>   [DEFAULT]     => --check-order=warning
>> --check-order   => --check-order=fatal
> 
> If we were going to change it I would not support both.
> I.E. I would not support the --nocheck-order option.
> I guess very few scripts actually use the --nocheck-order option.

I could go either way, but agree that --nocheck-order is probably a
new-enough invention that we can remove it altogether.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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