From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:17:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use natural ordering to display list of branches.
Message-ID: <7vej7aqetd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <d45085aa0806061713k72108a87qa6635a5935732f20@mail.gmail.com>

"Cedric Vivier" <cedricv@neonux.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
>>> > But can't that be just as easily done by piping through sort? (I
>>> > understand there is a platform which lacks the sort utility, boohoo)
>>>
>>> Yes, but sort does not have a natural sort option afaik.
>>
>> sort -n
>
> Hi!
>
> It is not natural sort but usual boring non-natural numeric sort ;)
> With the use-case in original post the list would appear exactly the
> same than with strcmp sort.

Somebody suggested strvercmp(); how does the natcmp() compare with it?