Sort Composer packages for your git merging pleasure

A lot of git merge conflicts occur when multiple developers add lines to the end of a file/list. This also happens in composer.json, AppKernel.php, translation files, config/application.config.php, CSS files, CHANGELOG, etc…

diff --cc composer.json
index 62e875e,0c526d8..0000000
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@@ -10,6 -10,6 +10,10 @@@
      "require": {
          "ramsey/uuid": "^3.0",
          "roave/security-advisories": "dev-master",
++<<<<<<< HEAD
 +        "beberlei/assert": "^2.3@dev"
++=======
+         "miljar/php-exif": "dev-master"
++>>>>>>> exif
      }
  }

A nice solution is that every developer adds lines or blocks to random places in a list or a file, but a better solution is to sort these lines (especially for lists like composer.json, translation files, etc…). This way you insert new lines in “random” places, keeping it clear for everyone how things are added.

diff --git a/changelog.rst b/changelog.rst
index d9db648..886b168 100644
--- a/changelog.rst
+++ b/changelog.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ June, 2015
 New Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+* `#5423 <https://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/pull/5423>`_ [Security] add & update doc entries on AbstractVoter implementation (Inoryy, javiereguiluz)
 * `#5401 <https://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/pull/5401>`_ Added some more docs about the remember me feature (WouterJ)
+* `#5384 <https://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/pull/5384>`_ Added information about the new date handling in the comparison constraints and Range (webmozart, javiereguiluz)
 * `#5382 <https://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/pull/5382>`_ Added support for standard Forwarded header (tony-co, javiereguiluz)
 * `#5361 <https://github.com/symfony/symfony-docs/pull/5361>`_ Document security.switch_user event (Rvanlaak)

Full diff on Github

Some tools and hacks that assist you with this:

Something that does not work for composer.json, but something I highly recommend, is to add trailing commas in PHP arrays and to not align code (see the blogpost by Made With Love about “How clean are your diffs?”). This eases up merging too!

Happy merging!