Greg Stein wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Dustin Lang <d...@astro.princeton.edu> > wrote: >> ... >>> You can use svn_sort_compare_items_lexically because entries are single >>> path components that do not contain slashes. In which case >>> svn_sort_compare_items_as_paths produces the same result but is less >>> efficient. >> >> The paths are like: >> >> trunk/documents/papers/archetypes/paper_plots/103lg.ps >> >> But I still believe you are right that lexical sort will work fine and is >> simpler than svn_sort_compare_items_as_paths. > > Right. Everything up to the final '/' will match precisely, so only > the children are being compared. > > More specifically, you are NOT sorting paths like: > > some/path > some/path/more > some/pathmore > > The sorting there is quite a bit different.
If you're using _lexically on these paths, please explain this in a comment, otherwise this will be confusing to readers. - Julian
