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Is it possible to sort exported stack JSON in order it should be in case it was reordered?

let me find a `jq` one-liner I’ve posted here :smile:

do you think it's possible to reverse the operation though?

now I’m confused - you’re the person I replied to :thinking_face:

```pulumi stack export | jq '.deployment.resources|=sort_by(.urn)'```

yeah now I need to reverse the operation because it broke the state. I

I'll try to sort it by parent and see if it breaks even more

oh, you mean that the order is actually important for `pulumi import` operation?

but I’m afraid it should probably be a little bit more complicated

then it may be needed to move resources without parent but that's not that many

yeah `pulumi import` complains as it loads resources so it may help me. I have only few resources fortunately

if changing the order somehow breaks the `pulumi import` , it probably means it expects them in the right order (so dependent resources are declared before the are used etc.)

so I guess we’re coming back to the topic to add some dedicated support for that

hmm now `pulumi import` did not complain  but `pulumi up` hangs then kills itself

damn, I wish this was on staging stack not a production :disappointed:

I guess my remote state got irreversibly corrupted

wait there are some checkpoints maybe that will help

ooof I managed to recover thanks to checkpoints!

Ah yeah as you’ve discovered the order in the state file is by dependency