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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script provides a limited selected dump of database content with the
+# purpose of generating a test fixture that provides the test data needed
+# by the test suite.
+#
+# The generated data fixture is sorted and normalized in order to produce
+# minimal commit diffs which reflect only actual changes in the fixture data,
+# without apparent changes resulting only from ordering changes.
+
+set -x
+ietf/manage.py dumpdata --indent 1 doc.State doc.BallotType doc.StateType       \
+        mailtrigger.MailTrigger mailtrigger.Recipient name utils.VersionInfo    \
+        group.GroupFeatures stats.CountryAlias dbtemplate.DBTemplate            \
+        | jq --sort-keys "sort_by(.model, .pk)"                                 \
+        | jq '[.[] | select(.model!="dbtemplate.dbtemplate" or .pk==354)]' > ietf/name/fixtures/names.json