From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 05:16:30 GMT
Subject: Re: How can I automatically create a GIT branch that represents a sequence of tags?
Message-ID: <52071E2E.2020001@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20130810232026.GF25779@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On 08/11/2013 01:20 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> [...]
> It would be very hard to do a tool such as you describe, the reason is
> that there's no sane way to order your tags. Git today show tags
> alphabetically, all versions does not have a alphabtic order. [...]
> It would be quite easy to make a script that create such branch for you,
> if you only can sort the tags somehow.

GNU sort has a nice option that can sort this way:

  -V, --version-sort
     Sort by version name and number.  It behaves like a standard sort,
     except that each sequence of decimal digits is treated numerically
     as an index/version number.

Michael

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