Display files in natural order instead of alphabetical/ASCII order

Problem to solve

I have a list of files which are named with numbers. GitLab's interface orders them alphabetically, while it would be more coherent to order them in natural order.

Example : On the following screenshot of Nautilus (Ubuntu), we can see that the file 1009 is located after the file 990:

While on GitLab, 1009 is located before 990:

Why should we solve this problem?

• It seems incoherent to have "10" before "2".
• This issue is addressed by many people. Two quick examples:
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9988937/sort-string-numbers
  • https://blog.codinghorror.com/sorting-for-humans-natural-sort-order/
• It is important for some people to have their files displayed in the right order (eg. chapters of a book)
• This feature seems pretty straightforward to implement.

gitlab-ce3412464 gitlab-ce10230929