[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bugtool: Add ability to prioritize files by date.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 01:22:54PM -0700, Raju Subramanian wrote:
> > The tree_output function is documented as processing files less nested
> > in the directory tree before those deeper in the directory tree.  It
> > doesn't do that anymore, so you should update the documentation.
> >
> >
> I don't see any documentation about tree_output previous to my change. Are
> you referring to this snippet in the file?
>     """
>     Walks the directory tree rooted at path. Files in current dir are
> processed
>     before files in sub-dirs.
>     """
>  os.walk() defaults to topDown. So my change should be doing just what the
> doc snippet says.

Yes, that's the documentation I meant (the "docstring").

As I read it, your change processes files sorted chronologically,
regardless of their location within the tree.  Am I wrong about that?