Re: Support customized reordering in version sort

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My idea is to make it easy for the user to change the sort algorithm.
>> And it's probably intuitive to just substitute a string with
>> something. So if "1-rc1" is put incorrectly before "1.1" and you
>> realize that "1.999" ought to be the last one before "2". You could
>> tell git to internally replace "1-rc1" with "1.999".
>>
>> This patch does that. The user feeds substitution rules via
>> versionsort.substitute config keys, e.g.
>>
>>     git config versionsort.substitute "-rc .999"
>
> I would say 1-rc1 comes and then 1-rc2 and then 1-rc3 ... 1-rc10 and then
> 1-rc11 and then finally 1. It will probably be followed by 1.1-rc1, 1.1-rc2, ...
> and then 1.1 (aka 1.1-final).
>
> If 1-rc1 is equated with 1.9991 because -rc is replaced with .999, how does
> it make 1 come after 1.99911, and 1.1.9992 come before 1.1?
>
> I didn't read the patch text and perhaps the explanation above is the only
> thing faulty about your message, or perhaps my reading is faulty and the
> above describes a sound idea, but I do not see how the above makes sense.