From 32f5ee6f4eac0b6cfd8f96485bbef986c873d99b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: arjunajesh <34989598+arjunajesh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:51:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] snapshots sorted by timestamp

---
 changelog/unreleased/issue-1495 | 7 +++++++
 cmd/restic/cmd_find.go          | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelog/unreleased/issue-1495

diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/issue-1495 b/changelog/unreleased/issue-1495
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5aa682efa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/issue-1495
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Enhancement: Snapshots are sorted by timestamp in the output of `restic find`
+
+The `find` command printed snapshots in an arbitrary order. Now restic prints
+the snapshots sorted by timestamp.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/1495
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4409
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_find.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_find.go
index e1161797b..181d8595d 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_find.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_find.go
@@ -621,7 +621,16 @@ func runFind(ctx context.Context, opts FindOptions, gopts GlobalOptions, args []
 		}
 	}
 
+	var filteredSnapshots []*restic.Snapshot
 	for sn := range FindFilteredSnapshots(ctx, snapshotLister, repo, &opts.SnapshotFilter, opts.Snapshots) {
+		filteredSnapshots = append(filteredSnapshots, sn)
+	}
+
+	sort.Slice(filteredSnapshots, func(i, j int) bool {
+		return filteredSnapshots[i].Time.Before(filteredSnapshots[j].Time)
+	})
+
+	for _, sn := range filteredSnapshots {
 		if f.blobIDs != nil || f.treeIDs != nil {
 			if err = f.findIDs(ctx, sn); err != nil && err.Error() != "OK" {
 				return err