Bulk export alphabetical with PHP comments for Drupal 6/Views 2 [#402650]

This patch does only two things:

1. On exported views, it inserts a PHP comment to better distinguish views from each other.
2. Sorts exported views alphabetically by view name.

The combination of these two things makes exported views more friendly with SCM.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	views_402650.patch	1.4 KB	drewish
#2	views_export_402650.patch	1.44 KB	drewish
	views2-bulk-export-scm-friendly.patch	1.45 KB	Anonymous (not verified)

Comments

Comment #1

drewish commented 19 March 2009 at 08:47

Status:

Needs work

» Reviewed & tested by the community

I'm all for this. I'd actually added code to get the sort order working locally and found this when I went to post an issue. As bangpound says this is really helpful when exporting views to track them in source control. Without it the view order changes when you edit a view making the exports much harder to read.

Test it it on exports and it works fine. Code also looks good.

Comment #2

drewish commented 19 March 2009 at 08:53

Status	File	Size
new	views_export_402650.patch	1.44 KB

actually this moves the sorting from the actual time of export up to where we build the list of exportables. this sorts the table the same as the exported code--which also syncs the view order up with the admin/build/views page.