Package Explorer and Git Repository View use different sortorder

[jukzi]

package explorer:


windows:

personally i prefer the order where numbers are treated as numbers i.e. package explorer should be adapted.

[akurtakov]

Please note that Package explorer is JDT feature so there might be part to fix there too. "Project explorer" on the other side is Platform thing.

[jukzi]

uh egit's STRING_ASCENDING_COMPARATOR looks complicated;
https://github.com/eclipse-egit/egit/blame/b01eccd78378ed9b3dcaf5833602d122daea4c1b/org.eclipse.egit.ui/src/org/eclipse/egit/ui/internal/CommonUtils.java#L78

[Bananeweizen]

It's actually rather simple from the idea, it's only complicated for a performant implementation taking care of all corner cases:

• Split the input string into consecutive sequences of either digits or non-digits.
• Compare these sequences in order (with the digits part using integer comparison), until they are different.
  So from your example above, it just compares sequences like ["Snippet", "123"] with the respective other ones. You can better see that by looking at early versions of the class, which was later "tuned" a lot.

There are other implementations out there which even honour separator characters like "." and ":", e.g. https://github.com/616slayer616/natorder

[jukzi]

Would be good to have a common Comparator in platform to be used in egit/JDT