From d9a3c855fb3668150b9dbf6a7a32c0b0117a8111 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 12:23:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] better wording for the alphabetical lists
Originally committed as revision 8918 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
index 847bdb66266..af306ee1a12 100644
--- a/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
+++ b/doc/ffmpeg-doc.texi
@@ -1717,8 +1717,8 @@ do not attach several unrelated patches to the same mail.
If you added a new file, did you insert a license header? It should be
taken from FFmpeg, not randomly copied and pasted from somewhere else.
@item
- Longer lists of things are usually kept in alphabetical order. If you
- add an item, make sure to maintain alphabetical order.
+ You should maintain alphabetical order in alphabetically ordered lists as
+ long as doing so does not break API/ABI compatibility.
@item
Did you provide a suggestion for a clear commit log message?
@end enumerate
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