# feature request - file ordering in `git status`

1 messages from 2022-09-29 to 2022-09-29. Participants: Jesus Zen Droïd.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/58532

## Jesus Zen Droïd, 2022-09-29 17:45

Subject: feature request - file ordering in `git status`
Message-ID: <20220929174555.Horde.GxbsiD55796RgkXu89v-Gc6@horde.mon-net.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20220929174555.Horde.GxbsiD55796RgkXu89v-Gc6%40horde.mon-net.org

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untracked files in `git status` are shown in order of

[0-9]
[A-Z]
[a-z]

it would be nice to have flags to change this behaviour, to:

- ignore case
- sort by date (most recent first... most important and should be the default
   IMHO)

[System Info]
git version:
git version 2.35.1
cpu: x86_64
no commit associated with this build
sizeof-long: 8
sizeof-size_t: 8
shell-path: /bin/sh
uname: Linux 5.15.59-gentoo-x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 31 09:27:53 CEST 2022 x86_64
compiler info: gnuc: 11.3
libc info: glibc: 2.35
$SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/bash

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