From: Felipe Contreras Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:49:41 GMT Subject: Re: Git tag output order is incorrect (IMHO) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <840FACA0-7E13-41DB-A0F8-124FAB53BFBD@rtcamp.com> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rahul Bansal wrote: > I am posting here first time, so please excuse me if this is not right place to send something like this. > > Please check - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6091306/can-i-make-git-print-x-y-z-style-tag-names-in-a-sensible-order > > And also - https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/4565 > > IMHO "git tag" is expected to show tag-list ordered by versions. > > It may be case, that people do not follow same version numbering convention. Most people after x.9.x increment major version (that is why they may not be affected because of this) > > Another option like "git tag --date-asc" can be added which will print tags by creation date. (As long as people do not create backdated tag, this will work). I completely agree, and there was a proposal to an option like this a long time ago: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111032 -- Felipe Contreras