Re: [PATCH] maint: fix alphabetical order in .gitignore

[Pádraig Brady]

On 01/02/2013 12:18 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> Hi Padraig,
>
> On 01/02/2013 12:37 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > On 01/02/2013 10:46 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> > > Sometimes, the file .gitignore shows up as changed.
> > > It seems that Git wants to keep it in alphabetical order.
> >
> > Is your git auto updating .gitignore?
> > It would be nice to know what's going on exactly.
>
> It seems so, but I don't know how/why - "git config -l" does
> not show anything suspicious.
>
> And I didn't find out when git it sorting that file
> again. I played around with things like coverage, resetting
> everything with "git clean -xdf" etc. but didn't see a
> pattern when the sorting happens. The only thing I did
> today which was different since playing around was the
> "git pull" for Jim's recent change. After that, .gitignore
> was changed again.
>
> There are many google hits for "gitignore sort", and several
> projects seem to have applied patches in the past to fix the
> order again, so I'm not alone ... ;-)
>
> > I suppose if it was a persistent issue, one could
> > add a syntax check based on:
> >
> > diff .gitignore <(LANG=C sort .gitignore)
>
> I don't understand. It's not a syntax-check failure,
> but rather simply ".gitignore" showing up upon "git status".

What's probably happening is that something is
auto inserting into .gitignore and thus resorting it.
I see insert_vc_ignore() in bootstrap for example.

If we added a new syntax-check to catch this issue,
then we'd not run into it again.

thanks,
Pádraig.