Subject: bug#10369: coreutils: [PATCH] chmod.c usage() order items alphabetically

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 02:25:33 -0800

On 12/26/11 02:20, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> chcon, chgrp need the same adjustment.
> Note I'd prefer to keep -R and -v together
> as they're more general than --ref and
> can use the same translations.

If we're going to list options in some order
than alphabetically (which often makes sense),
shouldn't -c, -f, and -v be kept together?
This would be for the same reason that --no-preserve-root
and --preserve-root are kept together: they're related
options.