Re: [PATCH v7] ls-remote: create '--sort' option

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 4, 2018, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20180404185606.GE9055@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHwyqnXtc-WgynCmE+EEVYtg6RRVweK8vwfBQS5VL4ygaFumKQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 07:18:42PM +0200, Harald Nordgren wrote:

> Jeff, you are right that 'git ls-remote --sort=committerdate' will not
> work. Do you think we need to do something about this, or it's fine
> that it fails the way you showed?

It's a reasonable-sized footgun, but one that I think most people would be unlikely to trigger. I think it's probably OK as long as we warn the user in the documentation (see my other response).

-Peff

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