Re: history damage in linux.git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 22, 2016, 13:38 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1604221538060.6812@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzEVy6BsVzTrYda3Nfo4o+QtqiqsX5xJqRt=se0eREDsA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Linus,

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >
> > Sadly, neither git's internal version-sorting nor GNU's "sort -V"
> > knows that "v1.0-rc1" comes before "v1.0", so I had to rely on
> > "--sort=taggerdate".
> 
> I'm not seeing the "sadly".
> 
> I think "--sort=taggerdate" is pretty much the only sane sort there is
> for tags, unless you do a true and full topological one (ie sort based
> on by how many commits that tag encompasses, but also by how each tag
> contains another tag).

Turns out it is pretty easy to implement this in name-rev. Expect the patch in your inbox in a minute.

Ciao, Dscho