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doc: ls: mention -r/--reverse does not work for -U/-f

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: 31055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31055: Document ls -Ur -fr
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:03:55 +0800

(info "(coreutils) Sorting the output") says

‘-r’
‘--reverse’
     Reverse whatever the sorting method is—e.g., list files in reverse
     alphabetical order, youngest first, smallest first, or whatever.

OK but mention 'whatever' doesn't mean -U, -f, because they are sorted
in "unsorted" order. In fact perhaps trigger an error.

Actually directory order is still an order, so in fact it is odd that -r
is "broken" here.

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