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    Move git_sort(), a stable sort, into into libgit.a · 97fff610
    Johannes Schindelin authored and Junio C Hamano's avatar Junio C Hamano committed
    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
    fe21c6b2
    
     (mingw: reencode environment variables on the fly (UTF-16
    <-> UTF-8), 2018-10-30), where we included `compat/qsort.c` directly in
    `compat/mingw.c` to use the stable sort.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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