hook to sort hooks in .pre-commit-config.yaml

[guykisel]

This might sound a little meta but it would be nice to have a hook that alphabetically sorts the hooks in the .pre-commit-config.yaml in my repo.

[asottile]

Would be pretty easy. The problem with yaml rewriting is it's hard to make it retain the formatting as seen in pre-commit/pre-commit#210 and pre-commit/pre-commit#211

The runtime order is also sometimes important (like I'd rather run autopep8 before flake8, whitespace fixers before anything else, etc. etc.). But yeah I could see some people wanting alphabetized so it seems like a good idea for a hook.

[guykisel]

My main motivation in wanting alphabetized hooks is to make it easy to compare the hooks I'm using vs the hooks that are available to see if there are any I've forgotten to add or added twice.

[asottile]

ooh I think we could do that better in the parent project. I've wanted to make a pre-commit list-hooks which shows what's installed / what's not and probably pre-commit search ... as well since we have data on http://pre-commit.com/all-hooks.json

How does that sound?

[guykisel]

Sounds good to me.

A nice-to-have would be if pre-commit search was smart enough to show hooks related to the file types in your repo.

[asottile]

closing since this hasn't really moved forward in years