diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 004bf899a6..70e31110a2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ git-annex (6.20180317) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     uses http-conduit.
   * info: Added "combined size of repositories containing these files"
     stat when run on a directory.
+  * info: Changed sorting of numcopies stats table, so it's ordered
+    by the variance from the desired number of copies.
 
  -- Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>  Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:13:59 -0400
 
diff --git a/Command/Info.hs b/Command/Info.hs
index 54e067a80b..6ec6a1f71e 100644
--- a/Command/Info.hs
+++ b/Command/Info.hs
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ numcopies_stats = stat "numcopies stats" $ json fmt $
 	calc <$> (maybe M.empty numCopiesVarianceMap <$> cachedNumCopiesStats)
   where
 	calc = map (\(variance, count) -> (show variance, count)) 
-		. sortBy (flip (comparing snd))
+		. sortBy (flip (comparing fst))
 		. M.toList
 	fmt = multiLine . map (\(variance, count) -> "numcopies " ++ variance ++ ": " ++ show count)