Angular.js: Combining $index and orderBy filter

When creating an application with Angular.js, I was using the $index variable inside an ng-repeat to track the index of the current item. The problem was that the moment I start combining this with an orderBy filter, the $index value was no longer correct.

I worked around the issue by passing the item itself around instead of the index.  In my function I used the indexOf method of an array.

	$scope.edit = function (movie) {
	$scope.editable = {
	index: $scope.movies.indexOf(movie),
	movie: angular.copy(movie)
	};
	};

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Anyone with a better solution?