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To:     Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> This is more a drive-by comment, as I have no stake in this, but don't we
> already have a more generic solution via `-O<orderfile>`? See
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff#Documentation/git-diff.txt--Oltorderfilegt
> for details.

The use cases are quite different.  This one is meant for a
single-shot use, while orderfile is a more permanent thing.

See https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqeehp2jis.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/
and start reading from "I suspect that" for background story.