Re: git-mergetool reverse file ordering

> Am 17.08.2016 um 03:25 schrieb David Aguilar:
>> Hmm, I do like the idea of reusing the diff orderFile, but a
>> mechanism for sorting arbitrary inputs based on the orderFile
>> isn't currently exposed in a way that mergetool could use it.
>
> Instead of using 'git ls-files -u | sed ... | sort -u' you could use
>
>   git diff-files --name-status -O... | sed -ne '/^U/s/^..//p'

>
>> But, that sort is honestly kinda crude.  It can't implement the
>> interesting case where we want bar.h to sort before bar.c but
>> not foo.h.
>>
>> If we did the sort option, we could have both.
>
> I don't think that we need a new filter when the diff machinery is
> capable of re-ordering files. We should enhance the diff machinery instead.
>
> -- Hannes
>