Re: [PATCH 2/4] submodule-config: keep groups around

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 21, 2016, 02:37 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqio2n1wvn.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZXSUkMx=+P0+L4yastYzqeCAUf83L2t8H9=QAC1FwuiA@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> In this patch series we only need to check the items of that list one by one,
> no need for a sorted version, so I'll change it to be unsorted and
> document that.

I actually was going to suggest keeping the sorted one. The order may be changed from the order specified in the file, but the sorted variant has one very desirable property, namely de-duping, that the code that uses this data structure may find useful.