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Re: random sort of svn status and svn diff

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:00:04 +0100

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 03:02:53AM +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 00:51 +0000, Philip Martin wrote:
> > Sérgio Basto <sergio_at_serjux.com> writes:
> > > why the output shouldn't be sorted by name or something else ?
> > > or why svn don't have a sort option this is insane .
> >
> > It could be done but nobody has done it yet, the APR change is only a
> > few weeks old. Sorting may need to be optional as there is a cost to
> > sorting that not everybody would want.
>
> I am a volunteer to change code to do a constant sort on svn diff and
> status and test it , I think that is more quick that do an external
> function to do that for me .

Great, please see
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#patches

You should discuss the approach you want to take to fix this on the
dev@ list before putting too much work into a patch. That way, if there
are any concerns about the approach they can get resolved upfront,
before a lot of work has been done. Please start a new thread on the
dev@ list to discuss your approach. Thanks!
Received on 2012-03-21 08:00:48 CET

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