microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Documentation for `winget list` is missing the `--sort` argument
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Description
Brief description of your issue
The winget list docs do not mention these parameters:
--sortor--asc/--desc
But they show up in the cli docs: winget list --help
I wasn't sure if I submit it here or not?
I cloned and grepped both repos for the string --sort and only found it in this repo here.
( https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/ and https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs )
But the markup and images are different, so neither looked like they were the final source?
date mismatch?
This file https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/windows/package-manager/winget/list.md was updated in 2026 but the yaml says 2021. Maybe this is normal, pointing it out in case it's not.
ms.date: 05/5/2021
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Research direction
Start with doc/windows/package-manager/winget/list.md and compare its documented options with the output of winget list --help. Confirm the correct source and metadata conventions, then document --sort, --asc, and --desc; done means the list page includes these arguments and its date metadata is verified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- markdown
- Domain
- cli, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 76/100