Re: [RFC/PATCH 4/9] ref-filter: add support to sort by version
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Add support to sort by version using the "v:refname" and
>> "version:refname" option. This is achieved by using the
>> 'version_cmp()' function as the comparing function for qsort.
>
> If these v:refname and version:refname are from git-tag, you may want
> to see [1]. I would say "version:" or "v:" is in the same class as "-"
> (for reverse sort) and they should be parsed in
> parse_opt_ref_sorting() instead. They should not be treated as atom
> names. By stripping "version:" before pref_ref_filter_atom() is called
> in this function, you make "version:" work with all supported atoms.
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/242446
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> Duy
Thanks for this, what you're saying makes sense, will follow.
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Regards,
Karthik Nayak