On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 01:58:28PM -0700, Zach wrote:
> I was wondering if it would be possible to alphabetically order git
> config --list by default.
>
> Essentially this
> $ git config --list | sort
No, it's not a good idea; the order of keys is important. For example,
this config:
[color]
ui = true
ui = false
is different than this:
[color]
ui = false
ui = true
While that seems like a contrived example, consider something like a
.git/config repo-specific config file overriding a user-wide
~/.gitconfig file. We do it by overwriting the old key.
There are also some "multi" values which accept multiple entries to
create a list, and the list order may be relevant (I'd have to check,
though; the only one that comes to mind is refspecs, and I don't know
that order matters there).
-Peff
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