From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 05:37:18 GMT
Subject: Re: Support customized reordering in version sort
Message-ID: <xmqqh9ufygdt.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daVJJcC--mwq0PfAczge3zG44ToDKP853FkyZ3x1KUfsig@mail.gmail.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> You can define values to optional negatives and optional positives to
> express a more
> elaborate sort order e.g.
>
>   1.0-pre12 < 1.0-rc0 < 1.0 < 1.0-post1
>
> even though "-post" does not have to be declared as optional positive.

... that is, you say "-pre" is a more negative optional than "-rc"
that is also a negative optional.