I cannot find clear documentation of what the "first N" RowFilter actually would skip. The documentation most likely exist, I just cannot find it.

Obvious it is the first N cells, but what is the order of the cells within a row? The natural assumption is that cells are returned in the order defined by the column families, and then the column qualifiers within a column family, and then the timestamps within each column. That is probably true, but I cannot find any docs saying that and it is better if I document that assumption.

This issue is here to find the right documentation (it must exist I just could not find it), link it from here and then update the documentation for the bigtable::Filter creation functions if the assumptions I made were wrong.