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+Subject: [Patch v6 01/14] test: add utility function to sort a json list\r
+Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:01:27 -0300\r
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+So far we only need this one place, but it's a bit messy to inline\r
+---\r
+ test/test-lib.sh | 6 ++++++\r
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+index 66edb7c..9824bb6 100644\r
+--- a/test/test-lib.sh\r
++++ b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+@@ -622,6 +622,12 @@ test_expect_equal_json () {\r
+ test_expect_equal "$output" "$expected" "$@"\r
+ }\r
+ \r
++# Sort the top-level list of JSON data from stdin.\r
++test_sort_json () {\r
++ PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python -c \\r
++ "import sys, json; json.dump(sorted(json.load(sys.stdin)),sys.stdout)"\r
++}\r
++\r
+ test_emacs_expect_t () {\r
+ test "$#" = 2 && { prereq=$1; shift; } || prereq=\r
+ test "$#" = 1 ||\r
+-- \r
+1.8.5.3\r
+\r