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On Oct 4, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Quentin Neill wrote:
> Ping?

The problem with this patch is it reorders the listing so that lower priori=
ty things are after higher priority things.  The entire point of the routin=
e is to list the high priority things first, so that a casual user can read=
 the first line or two and not immediately if there is something they care =
about.

Now, this property can be preserved simply by concatenating all the .sum fi=
les found in a directory into an all.sum file, and then running the script =
on those two files.  If one does that, then the priority order is preserved.