feature idea: alphabetical order crates and sorted insert

[Dowwie]

What do you think of the idea of a feature to alphabetically order crate dependencies and another to enhance "cargo add " with an ordered insert?

[ordian]

Hey @Dowwie! Are you not interested in this feature anymore? The only tricky question is what to do with the comments during reordering. Currently, the underlying toml library assumes that comment above and on the right of a key-value pair "belong" to it. e.g. when reordering this toml

# comment 2
dep2 = "version2" # comment 3
# comment 1
dep1 = "version1"

it would look like

# comment 1
dep1 = "version1"
# comment 2
dep2 = "version2" # comment 3

If this is what you would expect, then it can be fairly easily implemented. I don't have time to implement it, but would be happy to mentor.

[Dowwie]

@ordian the comment ownership as you described seems reasonable to me. Would you accept a PR with reordered items as you illustrated?

[ordian]

@Dowwie yes please! Feel free to ask any questions in https://gitter.im/cargo-edit/Lobby.

[thiagoarrais]

What would a good format for the feature be? I'm thinking

$ cargo sort --help
cargo-sort 0.3.3
Sort dependencies in a Cargo.toml manifest file.

USAGE:
    cargo sort [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help                Prints help information
        --dry-run             Print changes to be made without making them.
    -V, --version             Prints version information

OPTIONS:
        --manifest-path <path>    Path to the manifest to upgrade

This command sorts all dependencies in a Cargo.toml manifest file alphabetically. 

What do you think?

[Dowwie]

@thiagoarrais how about also sort on insert, such as "cargo add --sorted" ?

[thiagoarrais]

that is done pending merge: #322

[thiagoarrais]

Come to think of it, maybe cargo sort is irrelevant after that...