From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2024 06:31:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ref-filter.c: sort formatted dates by byte value
Message-ID: <xmqqeddmkv1i.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <5ed018da-2150-42d8-995e-59a35a2e3821@github.com>

Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>>     I came across a use case for 'git for-each-ref' at $DAYJOB in which I'd
>>>     want to sort by a portion of a formatted 'creatordate' (e.g., only the
>>>     time of day, sans date). When I tried to run something like 'git
>>>     for-each-ref --sort=creatordate:format:%H:%M:%S',
>> 
>> Hmph, this indeed is interesting ;-)
>> 
>> I wonder if there are other "sort by numeric but the thing could be
>> stringified by the end-user" atoms offered by for-each-ref
>> machinery.  IOW, is the timestamp the only thing that needs this
>> fix?
>
> The only non-FIELD_STR atoms other than the date ones are "objectsize" and
> "numparent". "objectsize" has an optional ":disk" modifier, but that doesn't
> change formatting (just the value of the integer printed). "numparent"
> doesn't have any modifiers, it just prints the integer number of parents.
> Otherwise, everything is sorted by string value, so I think only the date
> atoms have this kind of mismatch between formatted value and sort value.

Thanks.