From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:11:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tag: support --sort=<spec>
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Aqd4-9z3nb2Hi=nxrRLUYN+9pGiNP7-fnUE_Bn5zRW+Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140226110803.GG25711@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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