From: Marius Storm-Olsen Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:36:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] use natural ordering to display list of branches. Message-ID: <48484E42.8050209@trolltech.com> In-Reply-To: Cedric Vivier said the following on 05.06.2008 22:08: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: >> What about people preferring the status quo? I think a command >> line option would be in order. > > Is there really people preferring the status quo ? ;) Of course we > probably need some debate about making it default or not but you're > completely right there should be an option about that - and maybe a > config variable as well? How about > --sort=ascending|descending|natural (with branch.sort as the > corresponding config var) ? IMO, we now need to step back, and start considering the ever expanding complexity of all the Git command line options. Is there _really_ a need for a command line option to control this? Will people _really_, for that _one_ invocation change the order of file listing? Or, will they simply prefer one particular order, set it, and forget it? We really need to analyze the use-cases, and do everything we can to avoid confusing clutter. IMO this feature falls into the "configuration-variable, but not command-line option" category. (People who _really_ want a different order, for that _one_ invocation, are most probable also in the group that can write their own little 3-line script to do this.) Just my 10NOK.. -- .marius