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new 22cd119160 Remove stale/incorrect absent-key null-sort claim from
order()-step docs
22cd119160 is described below
commit 22cd1191609fedf8f8401b793fd3ba0bf198284a
Author: Stephen Mallette <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 21 15:49:43 2026 +0000
Remove stale/incorrect absent-key null-sort claim from order()-step docs
The order()-step section claimed that an element lacking the property key
being sorted on is treated as null and placed first (asc) or last (desc).
That is incorrect: such elements are filtered out of the result. Removed the
false claim and its demonstrating example, along with the obsolete 'Prior to
version 3.3.4' NOTE.
Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8
---
docs/src/reference/the-traversal.asciidoc | 11 -----------
1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/src/reference/the-traversal.asciidoc
b/docs/src/reference/the-traversal.asciidoc
index 4eb2332ae2..ea88f03fa1 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference/the-traversal.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/src/reference/the-traversal.asciidoc
@@ -3404,17 +3404,6 @@
g.V().groupCount().by(inE().count()).order(local).by(keys, asc) <4>
NOTE: The `values` and `keys` enums are from `Column` which is used to select
"columns" from a `Map`, `Map.Entry`, or `Path`.
-If a property key does not exist, then it will be treated as `null` which will
sort it first for `Order.asc` and last
-for `Order.desc`.
-
-[gremlin-groovy,modern]
-----
-g.V().order().by("age").elementMap()
-----
-
-NOTE: Prior to version 3.3.4, ordering was defined by `Order.incr` for
ascending order and `Order.decr` for descending
-order. Those tokens were deprecated and eventually removed in 3.5.0.
-
*Additional References*
link:++https://tinkerpop.apache.org/javadocs/x.y.z/core/org/apache/tinkerpop/gremlin/process/traversal/dsl/graph/GraphTraversal.html#order()++[`order()`],
