Re: [PATCH v3] tag: support --sort=<spec>
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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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- Feb 26, 2014, 11:11 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> I'd worry slightly, though, that there are other schemes where that > behaves poorly. Should we optimize for git's version numbering, or for > what most other projects want? There could even be room for two types of > version-compare. But before thinking about that, I'd want to know why > glibc behaves as it does.
We don't have to force one version style for all projects. We could provide --sort="thisver:refname" vs. "thatver:refname", or put the "-pre" part in config file. The important thing is we can control the version algorithm.
-- Duy