Re: [PATCH] use natural ordering to display list of branches.

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Jun 6, 2008, 19:03 UTC
Message-ID: <48498A17.5000202@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <bd6139dc0806061136o3830c826va416edca16550fa9@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Except, of course, if you have a script that wants to override whatever
>> the user set in her config.
> 
> I think this is why stuff like GDB has both a CLI and a MI. In order
> to keep the CLI clean you have to make choices, similar to how we
> already separate plumbing from porcelain. I guess in that sense our MI
> is the plumbing, and the porcelain is our CLI. Of course, in that case
> there needn't be such an option in the porcelain, as long as there is
> one in the plumbing ;).
> Conclusion, go for the config option but make sure there's a switch
> for scripts in the plumbing?

Or do the natural sorting only in the porcelain, even if that means sorting twice, and use a config option in the porcelain?

(Now, "git branch" is porcelain isn't it? Plumbing is git-for-each-ref, and it has sorting options).

Paolo