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Authored by pstef on Jan 6 2025, 9:30 PM.
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rG8b92977857f8: ls: implement --group-directories-first for compatibility with GNU ls
Summary

Implement --group-directories-first for compatibility with GNU ls.

Also implement --group-directories which takes a parameter.
"first" is equivalent to --group-directories-first, "last" gives
reversed sorting.

Changes in sorting between elements of the same type (files,
directories) are not intended.

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pstef created this revision.Jan 6 2025, 9:30 PM
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pstef requested review of this revision.Jan 6 2025, 9:30 PM
pstef updated this revision to Diff 148840.Jan 6 2025, 10:01 PM
pstef updated this revision to Diff 148857.Jan 7 2025, 7:00 AM
pstef updated this revision to Diff 148896.Jan 7 2025, 5:37 PM
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I do not like long options. We have a different culture and tradition that has a steep learning curve, but has led to the last living usable, daily driveable CLI. Long options are great for scripts but ruin the usability of CLI as a UX. This is just a comment and not a request for changes or nack. Cc'ing community leaders for review, and manpages since this is a manpage change.

pstef added a comment.Jan 8 2025, 6:46 AM

This is for compatibility with GNU ls, where this is an equally long option.
We already distribute a system where ls is an alias.

jhb added a subscriber: jhb.Jan 9 2025, 4:59 PM

Supporting the GNU ls option (--group-directories-first) as a long option seems fine to me. For the FreeBSD-specific extension the similar long option is probably ok. If -G wasn't already claimed by color ls perhaps that would have been a good candidate, but there are very few remaining single-letter options.

bin/ls/ls.1
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Does this need a note about not being compatible with POSIX? I note that --color is missing such a note but other single-letter extensions are annotated as such both in the option description and in the STANDARDS section.

pstef added inline comments.Jan 10 2025, 6:28 PM
bin/ls/ls.1
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I don't have a good idea how to craft the words here.

pstef updated this revision to Diff 149081.Jan 10 2025, 6:28 PM

Try to address comments from jhb.

This revision was not accepted when it landed; it landed in state Needs Review.Jan 16 2025, 4:04 PM
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