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<updated>2019-10-02T05:44:51Z</updated>
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<title>Move git_sort(), a stable sort, into into libgit.a</title>
<updated>2019-10-02T05:44:51Z</updated>
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<name>Johannes Schindelin</name>
<email>johannes.schindelin@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2019-09-30T17:21:54Z</published>
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The `qsort()` function is not guaranteed to be stable, i.e. it does not
promise to maintain the order of items it is told to consider equal. In
contrast, the `git_sort()` function we carry in `compat/qsort.c` _is_
stable, by virtue of implementing a merge sort algorithm.

In preparation for using a stable sort in Git's rename detection, move
the stable sort into `libgit.a` so that it is compiled in
unconditionally, and rename it to `git_stable_qsort()`.

Note: this also makes the hack obsolete that was introduced in
fe21c6b285d (mingw: reencode environment variables on the fly (UTF-16
&lt;-&gt; UTF-8), 2018-10-30), where we included `compat/qsort.c` directly in
`compat/mingw.c` to use the stable sort.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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