Sort files when capturing user_dir contents for populateValuesYAML fu…

…nction (#716)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 
 ## unreleased
 
-* **Overall**
-  * [CHANGE] A minor tweak to an internal function, v4m_replace, was made to improve its handling of 
-some special characters.
-
 * **Metrics**
   * [CHANGE] Removed temporary fix (added w/1.2.27) replacing a small number of Grafana dashboards
 inherited from the Kube-Prometheus Stack Helm chart that did not work with Grafana 11.x due to Angular 
@@ -24,7 +20,11 @@ deployment of the (generally unused) `Node Exporter/MacOS` dashboard within Graf
   * [UPGRADE] Prometheus Operator has been upgraded from 0.76.1 to 0.79.2.
   * [UPGRADE] Prometheus Pushgateway has been upgraded from 1.9.0 to 1.11.0.
 
-
+* **Overall**
+  * [CHANGE] A minor tweak to an internal function, `v4m_replace`, was made to improve its handling of 
+some special characters.
+  * [CHANGE] A minor tweak to an internal function, `populateValuesYAML`, was made to sort the list of
+files in the USER_DIR directory captured as part of deploying the V4M Helm Chart.
 
 
 ## Version 1.2.33 (14JAN2025)

bin/version-include.sh

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ function populateValuesYAML() {
       echo '"user_dir":' >> "$v4mValuesYAML"
       echo "  path: $USER_DIR" >> "$v4mValuesYAML"
       echo '  files: |' >> "$v4mValuesYAML"
-      l=($(find "$USER_DIR" -type f))
+      l=($(find "$USER_DIR" -type f|sort))
       for (( i=0; i<${#l[@]}; i++ )); do
         fullPath=${l[i]}
         path=${fullPath#"$USER_DIR/"}