Actually, I think Solr does rearrange everything to its liking (alphabetical?) when it rewrites managed-schema. So, if the definitions are added via API, the order will be deterministic.
That's what I believe though, I can't remember testing it exhaustively with physically rearranged types. Regards, Alex On 20 December 2017 at 11:37, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > The schema is not order dependent, I freely mix-n-match the fieldType, > copyField and field definitions for instance. > > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Michael Joyner <mich...@newsrx.com> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm wanting to update our managed-schemas to include the latest options >> available in the 6.6.2 branch. (point types for one) >> >> I would like to be able to sort them and diff them (production vs dist >> supplied) to create a simple patch that can be reviewed, edited if >> necessary, and then applied to the production schemas. >> >> I'm thinking this approach would be least human error prone, but, the >> schemas would need to be diffable and I can only see this as doable if they >> are sorted so that common parts diff out. I only see this approach easily >> workable if the entries aren't order dependent. (Presuming I can get all the >> various schema settings to fit neatly on single lines...). >> >> Or does there exist a list of schema entries added along different point >> releases? >> >> -Mike/NewsRx >>