From 61933758148caee332ab0ca95f1a2feccd612b5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Paul=20H=C3=A4nsch?= <paul@plutz.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 21:07:08 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] omit sorting of meta file; provide time marks for newly
 generated meta files

---
 indexmeta.sh | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/indexmeta.sh b/indexmeta.sh
index e478324..43e360d 100644
--- a/indexmeta.sh
+++ b/indexmeta.sh
@@ -88,10 +88,11 @@ meta_dir(){
     | while read -r v; do
       meta_line "$v"
     done >"$meta"
+    touch "$metat"
 
     RELEASE "$meta"
   elif [ -d "$dir/.index" -a "$dir" -nt "$metat" ] && LOCK "$meta"; then
-    cp -p "$meta" "$meta.ref"; touch "$meta"
+    touch "$meta"
     find "$dir" -type f -newer "$metat" \
          -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 \
     | grep -aE "$file_pattern" \
@@ -99,8 +100,6 @@ meta_dir(){
       grep -qF "	$(meta_name "$v")" "$meta" \
       || meta_line "$v"
     done >>"$meta"
-    sort -u "$meta" >"$meta.ref"
-    mv "$meta.ref" "$meta"
     touch "$metat"
 
     RELEASE "$meta"
-- 
2.39.2