By default, the patches are not ordered. Because of the unreliability
of e-mail delivery, they can be received completely out of order.
Patchwork may also re-order them, and they may get ordered by commit
author date (or, equivalently, e-mail Date header). Both
possibilities lead to failure to apply patches if the order is
incorrect for two patches that do not commute.
The patch name contains a header: [bug#xxx,v12,i/n] where "i" is the
variable part and indicates the patch number. Git pads "i" with zeros
if needed. The string order of the names is thus the true commit
order.
* guix-qa-frontpage/manage-patch-branches.scm (create-branch-for-issue):
Sort patches according to their "name".
---
guix-qa-frontpage/manage-patch-branches.scm | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/guix-qa-frontpage/manage-patch-branches.scm
b/guix-qa-frontpage/manage-patch-branches.scm
index a42f3a0..74d7b8b 100644
--- a/guix-qa-frontpage/manage-patch-branches.scm
+++ b/guix-qa-frontpage/manage-patch-branches.scm
@@ -243,8 +243,13 @@
(invoke-read-line "git" "show-ref" "--hash" base-tag)))
(let loop ((patch-data
- (vector->list
- (assoc-ref patchwork-series "patches")))
+ (stable-sort
+ (vector->list
+ (assoc-ref patchwork-series "patches"))
+ (lambda (patch-a patch-b)
+ (let ((name-a (assoc-ref patch-a "name"))
+ (name-b (assoc-ref patch-b "name")))
+ (string<? name-a name-b)))))
(results '()))
(if (null? patch-data)
(begin
base-commit: 074b856b01202c74a86846278adf1a7bbcc41cb9
--
2.41.0
