Re: [PATCH] ls-remote: create option to sort by versions

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is a sensible thing to want, but why not follow the UI we have for
>> this with git-tag? I.e. --sort=<key> & -i (or --ignore-case)? Of course
>> ls-remote doesn't just show tags, so maybe we'd want --tag-sort=<key>
>> and --ignore-tag-case or something, but the rest should be equivalent,
>> no?
>
> Yeah, and if we can reuse more of ref-filter.c machinery (which was
> factored out of for-each-ref and tag you suggested borrows from),
> that would be even better.  In the context of ls-remote, however, we
> cannot inspect the object (we typically do not have them yet), so it
> may not be practical, but I agree with your suggestion---we should
> match the behaviour at the UI level at least when we can.
>