Optionally sort .bzrignore

[Andrea Corbellini]

To keep my .bzrignore files clean and easier to maintain, I always sort is using `sort`. It'd be useful for me if Bazaar could sort it automatically every time I run `bzr ignore <something>`.

[Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 18:55 +0000, Andrea Corbellini wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> To keep my .bzrignore files clean and easier to maintain, I always sort
> is using `sort`. It'd be useful for me if Bazaar could sort it
> automatically every time I run `bzr ignore <something>`.
It would be nice to support this, but I'm not sure if it should be the
default. I know of projects who comment their ignore file and group
items.

Cheers,

Jelmer

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

A plugin could do this easily.

[Vincent Ladeuil (vila)]

I agree with Jelmer, this should not be the default.
But a configuration option is perfectly acceptable.

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

Alternatively, 'bzr ignore foo' could first check whether the .bzrignore is in sorted order - if it is, add the new entry and sort - if not, add at end.