diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 891221d6..9ed29327 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Feature enhancements:
   Add `italic` to the list of available style attributes in `--color`.
 * [FEATURE #2842](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/2842):
   Directories containing `.jj` are now treated as git repositories.
+* [FEATURE #2849](https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/pull/2849):
+  When using multithreading, schedule files to search in order given on CLI.
 
 
 14.1.1 (2024-09-08)
diff --git a/crates/ignore/src/walk.rs b/crates/ignore/src/walk.rs
index d6ea9c21..03a6e2d0 100644
--- a/crates/ignore/src/walk.rs
+++ b/crates/ignore/src/walk.rs
@@ -1420,8 +1420,11 @@ impl Stack {
                 stealers: stealers.clone(),
             })
             .collect();
-        // Distribute the initial messages.
+        // Distribute the initial messages, reverse the order to cancel out
+        // the other reversal caused by the inherent LIFO processing of the
+        // per-thread stacks which are filled here.
         init.into_iter()
+            .rev()
             .zip(stacks.iter().cycle())
             .for_each(|(m, s)| s.push(m));
         stacks