Sort project.refs
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- Python
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Description
project.refs is currently unsorted. This makes checking the file into git quite cumbersome. It would be nice if buildstream could sort the keys by element name before writing the `project.refs` file, so that we could get cleaner git diffs out of an invocation of `bst source track **.bst`
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing the `bst source track **.bst` entry point to where `project.refs` is written. Check how element names become keys, then verify that the generated file is consistently sorted and produces cleaner git diffs; the issue does not mention a test file to run.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100