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Build Identifier: Version: 3.8.0 Build id: I20120314-1800 (but has been present for as long as I can remember) This is a smallish thing that has annoyed me for quite some time. When using the Product Configuration Editor to add or remove dependencies, the updated file will have all <plugin> under <plugins> and <configurations> listed in some pseudo-random order. This makes diffs unnecessarily big and code reviews hard. Preferably the editor should keep the dependency order as close to the already existing order, or at least write the elements sorted using some stable sort. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create product file with a number of dependencies 2. Save file. 3. Update and save file 4. Compare the saved files with local history to see humongous diff.
tested on 4.7 M3 (I-Build), seems working plugins are written to .xml sorted by id in both cases of <plugins> and <configurations>, also according to code it should be so (Product class uses TreeMap with pluginId as keys, with treemaps's iterator for writing to xml)
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This bug has been marked as stalebug a while ago without any further interaction. If this report is still relevant for the current release, please reopen and remove the stalebug whiteboard flag.
This bug was marked as stalebug a while ago. Marking as worksforme. If this report is still relevant for the current release, please reopen and remove the stalebug whiteboard tag.
