On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
In contrast, it you have two files "proj/file" and "proj.c", the "proj.c"
will sort alphabetically before "proj/file" in the index. The index
itself, of course, does not actually contain an entry "proj/", but in the
*tree* that gets written out, the tree entry "proj" will sort before the
^^^^^^
file entry "proj.c", which is the only real magic sorting rule.
That "before" should be "after", of course, otherwise the whole
explanation makes no sense..
Linus