On May 12 2007 07:46, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>> You should not assume alphabetical order. Filesystems may be free to
>> reorder things and return them (1) randomly like in a hash (2) by
>> creation time during readdir().
>
>There is no assumption. Mercurial explicitly visits files in
>alphabetical order for the above commands.
But who says that
for i in {a..z}; do ## {..} is a bash3 extension
touch $i;
done;
actually makes readdir() return them in the same order?
Jan
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