Support for automatic sorting of paths

[zegl]

Comment from @JensRantil in a private repository, I'm adding it as an issue here as a reminder to decide what to do about it.

How about generate_codeowners ordering according to

1. Shortest first; otherwise
2. Lexicographically.

That way the codeowners file will always be do more specific paths first which likely is what you want, right?

[sudoforge]

Longest first; otherwise

This wouldn't work with the way GitHub parses the CODEOWNERS file.

That way the codeowners file will always be do more specific paths first which likely is what you want, right?

On GitHub, you want more specific paths last, not first. See About CODEOWNERS for more information about the syntax. To summarize:

* # default owner(s)
*.js # something a little less generic
src/foo/bar/baz/*.go # an even more specific path

[zegl]

@sudoforge You're of course correct! I'll update the description. 👍

[sudoforge]

I think sort should work for most cases, but the **/{foo} syntax may be cause for concern

→ cat CODEOWNERS | rg --invert-match '^\#|^\s*$' | sort
* @global-reviewers
**/CODEOWNERS @nested-codeowners-reviewers
*.html @html-reviewers
*.js @js-reviewers
/src/slack-chat-bot @slack-chat-bot-reviewers
/src/potato-pie @pie-reviewers
BUILD* @build-tools-reviewers
CODEOWNERS @all-codeowners-reviewers