Is the order of the pins in Package.resolved significant?

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are the pins in Package.resolved sorted in any way? will a dependency’s own dependencies always appear earlier in the list?

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Currently SwiftPM happens to write out the pins file in alphabetical order by identity for the sake of determinism. However, semantically speaking the pins are unordered; if you shuffle them manually, SwiftPM will still consider them equal and not overwrite your changes.

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hmm. what would be the easiest way to get the pins in a correct partial order?

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From outside libSwiftPM? Maybe load swift package show-dependencies --format json, flatten the tree, then reverse?

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that’s a good idea, thanks!