Re: force deterministic trees on git push - exact sort-order of filenames

milan hauth [off-list ref] writes:

fact: the sort-order of filenames in a tree is not strictly regulated

Untrue, sorry.

The rule is "a tree entry that describes a tree object sorts as if
its pathname component has a trailing slash '/'".  All your sample
trees should satisify that rule (or the implementation of Git that
created such a tree is broken).

In hindsight, if we used the collation order that puts '/' before
all other bytes when sorting the index entries and the tree entries,
it would have made a lot of implemenentation details clean and easier
to work with, but that would have been feasible in early 2005, and
not now.

aah!

thanks for clarifying this implementation detail

so git trees are deterministic already.
this makes my life much easier : )