How to get sorted output from counsel-git-grep with ivy?

Question

When using git-grep, the output isn't sorted alphabetically which makes navigating the results more tedious then it should be.

Is there a way to sort the output?

I checked git-grep and it seems there are no options to do this from within git itself.

Answer 1

Posting an answer to my own question, it's a works albeit a little hacky.

This simply pipes git-grep to sort.

Create an executable shell script wrapper for git: ~/emacs.d/bin/git_sorted

#!/bin/bash
exec git ${1+"$@"} | sort -V

And in your emacs.d/init.el:

(setq
  counsel-git-grep-cmd-default
  "~/.emacs.d/bin/git_sorted --no-pager grep --full-name -n --no-color -e %S")

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sort -V happens to sort line numbers correctly (-n, -h... don't).

Note, it would be nice if there was a way to only sort the file-list which git-grep uses, instead of having to sort the entire output.