try to sort by time. didn't work

5 files changed, 70 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8f98caf..d32afa0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-all: proto vet
+all: goimports proto vet
 
 proto:
 	autogenpb --proto stat.proto
diff --git a/stat.SortCtime.go b/stat.SortCtime.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ccf4b48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stat.SortCtime.go
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+// Code generated by go.wit.com/apps/autogenpb DO NOT EDIT.
+//     go install go.wit.com/apps/autogenpb@latest
+//
+// This file was autogenerated with autogenpb:
+//  autogenpb v0.5.27    Built on  2025/10/16 17:13:05  ( 52 m)
+// Theese sort.pb.go and marshal.pb.go files are autogenerated
+// The autogenpb sources have example .proto files with instructions
+//
+
+package gitpb
+
+import (
+	"sort"
+)
+
+func (pb *Stats) SortCtime() {
+	statMu.Lock()
+	defer statMu.Unlock()
+
+	sort.Sort(sortStatCtime(pb.Stats))
+}
+
+// sort struct by Ctime
+type sortStatCtime []*Stat
+
+func (a sortStatCtime) Len() int { return len(a) }
+func (a sortStatCtime) Less(i, j int) bool {
+	itime := a[i].Ctime.AsTime()
+	jtime := a[j].Ctime.AsTime()
+	return itime.Before(jtime)
+}
+func (a sortStatCtime) Swap(i, j int) { a[i], a[j] = a[j], a[i] }
diff --git a/stat.TableLimit.go b/stat.TableLimit.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c0b217
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stat.TableLimit.go
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// Code generated by go.wit.com/apps/autogenpb DO NOT EDIT.
+//     go install go.wit.com/apps/autogenpb@latest
+//
+// This file was autogenerated with autogenpb:
+//  autogenpb v0.5.26-2-gf383ca1    Built on  2025/10/16 13:59:01  ( 54 s)
+// Theese sort.pb.go and marshal.pb.go files are autogenerated
+// The autogenpb sources have example .proto files with instructions
+//
+
+package gitpb
+
+import (
+	"go.wit.com/lib/cobol"
+)
+
+// formats & prints the table as text to Stdout. a real timesaver!
+func (t *StatsTable) PrintTableLimit(limit int) {
+	t.MakeTable()
+	cobol.PrintTableLimit(t.pb, limit)
+}
diff --git a/stat.proto b/stat.proto
index 4a2ccc1..2adcf28 100644
--- a/stat.proto
+++ b/stat.proto
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ message Stat {
                 REMOTE = 2;
                 TAG    = 3;
         }
-        string                      patchId      = 1;  // `autogenpb:unique` // git hash
+        string                      patchId      = 1;  // `autogenpb:unique` `autogenpb:sort`
         string                      hash         = 2;  // `autogenpb:unique` // git hash
-        google.protobuf.Timestamp   ctime        = 3;  // ctime for the .git/config file
+        google.protobuf.Timestamp   ctime        = 3;  // `autogenpb:unique` `autogenpb:sort`
         string                      name         = 4;  //
         string                      remote       = 5;  // blank unless REMOTE
         RefType                     type         = 6;  // is set by git as the master branch
diff --git a/tableStats.go b/tableStats.go
index ba45e31..0a278e0 100644
--- a/tableStats.go
+++ b/tableStats.go
@@ -3,15 +3,24 @@
 package gitpb
 
 import (
-	"go.wit.com/log"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/cobol"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
 )
 
 func (pb *Stats) PrintTable() string {
 	t := pb.MakeTable("missing repos table")
 
+	// limit the number of lines
 	t.PrintTable()
-	return log.Sprintf("pb.StatsTB:  total=(%d)", pb.Len())
+	return log.Sprintf("pb.StatsTB: top 16 refs total=(%d)", pb.Len())
+}
+
+func (pb *Stats) PrintTableLimit(limit int) string {
+	t := pb.MakeTable("missing repos table")
+
+	// limit the number of lines
+	t.PrintTableLimit(limit)
+	return log.Sprintf("pb.StatsTB: top %d refs total=(%d)", limit, pb.Len())
 }
 
 func (pb *Stats) MakeTable(name string) *StatsTable {
@@ -23,6 +32,10 @@ func (pb *Stats) MakeTable(name string) *StatsTable {
 	col = t.AddPatchId()
 	col.Width = 10
 
+	col = t.AddHash()
+	col.Width = 10
+	col.Header.Name = "Git Hash"
+
 	col = t.AddStringFunc("something", func(r *Stat) string {
 		return "notsure"
 	})