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Collapse _build_posts double sort into one comparator (#50)#68

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Closes #50.

Diagnosis

_build_posts did two sorts:

my @posts = sort { $b->date <=> $a->date }
            map { Plerd::Post->new( ... ) }
            sort { $a->basename cmp $b->basename }   # <-- this pass
            grep { /\.markdown$|\.md$/ }
            $self->source_directory->children;

The inner basename sort isn't thrown away (it's the tiebreak for posts that share a date, preserved through the stable outer sort), but doing it as a separate pass is redundant work, as noted on the issue.

Fix

Collapse to a single sort with an explicit comparator — date descending, basename ascending:

sort {
    $b->date <=> $a->date
    || $a->source_file->basename cmp $b->source_file->basename
}

This is the same comparator _ordered_basenames already uses on the incremental publish path, so a full publish and an incremental publish now provably agree on ordering. The grep still accepts both .md and .markdown.

Behavior

Output order is unchanged (the old stable-sort + pre-sort produced the same result); this drops the redundant pass and makes the tiebreak explicit. t/post_sort.t pins the contract — newest-first with a basename tiebreak — and was written against the old code first to confirm the order doesn't change, including the mixed .md/.markdown, same-date case. Full suite green.

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jmacdotorg and others added 2 commits June 21, 2026 20:04
_build_posts pre-sorted source files by basename and then re-sorted the
constructed posts by date, relying on sort stability to keep the basename
order as a tiebreak. Replace the two passes with a single sort whose
comparator is date-descending, basename-ascending -- the same rule
_ordered_basenames uses on the incremental path, so full and incremental
publishes now agree on ordering. The grep still accepts .md and .markdown.

Output order is unchanged; adds t/post_sort.t to lock the contract,
including the mixed-extension, same-date tiebreak case.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI caught that the previous commit broke t/basic.t on Linux: removing the
basename sort that ran *before* the map meant posts were constructed in
readdir order. Construction has side effects (it can die on a malformed
file, rewrites source files, resolves tag-case conflicts first-seen-wins),
so a non-deterministic order made publish_all report no-title.md's error
before bad-date.md's on ext4, failing the "not in W3C format" assertion.

Restore the basename pre-sort so construction is deterministic, keeping
the explicit date-then-basename comparator on the built posts. The
pre-sort orders file objects (not posts), so it's cheap -- it isn't
redundant, it's load-bearing for determinism.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@jmacdotorg jmacdotorg merged commit 645a902 into master Jun 22, 2026
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@jmacdotorg jmacdotorg deleted the fix/50-post-sort branch June 22, 2026 14:47
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sub _build_posts does not sort a file list with both .md and .markdown correctly

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