From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:22:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Git tag output order is incorrect (IMHO)
Message-ID: <20130720002241.GA22143@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vli52uym0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:40:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
> > Rahul Bansal <rahul.bansal@rtcamp.com> writes:
> >
> >> IMHO "git tag" is expected to show tag-list ordered by versions. 
> >
> > A git tag can be anything, not related to versions at all.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> But that does not prevent somebody to add "git tag --sort=X" option
> to the command, just like "git for-each-ref" has "--sort=X" option.

A while ago I started on (but did not get very far on) unifying the ref
selection code for for-each-ref, tag, and branch. It would be nice if
they all supported the same set of --contains/--points-at/--merged/--sort,
etc.

I do plan to finish it eventually, but if anyone else feels like picking
it up, I'd be glad to review patches and/or share my work-in-progress as
a starting point.

-Peff