This repository has been deprecated. Use https://github.com/sirosen/texthooks instead.

A newer version of alphabetize-codeowners is maintained there.

For teams with lists of users attached to different paths, comparison of codeowners lines quickly becomes difficult.

Alphabetize the lists of path owners so that they are always normalized to the same form.

Use via pre-commit:

- repo: https://github.com/sirosen/alphabetize-codeowners
  rev: 0.0.1
  hooks:
    - id: alphabetize-codeowners

Use it as a python script by installing with pipx:

pipx install alphabetize-codeowners

Then run with

alphabetize-codeowners -v

alphabetize-codeowners alphabetizes the lists of owners per path. It does not alphabetize the lines in the file or otherwise sort them.

Any comment lines or empty lines should be left unmodified by the hook.

On the lines which are modified, the hook will normalize the line to have no leading whitespace, and to separate codeowner names with a single space character.