Re: [PATCH 5/5] versioncmp: cope with common leading parts in versionsort.prereleaseSuffix

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 5, 2016, 22:15 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqwphmmoi6.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161005232609.Horde.VetzEIKHDJUdcaOod9sHxuK@webmail.informatik.kit.edu>

SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de> writes:

> Gut feeling tells me that I should take this as a subtle
> encouragement to look into adding 'versionsort.postreleasesuffix',
> shouldn't I ;)

It is more like "this made me realize that these are merely 'suffix' after the real release name, no pre- or post- about them", also known as "I think PREreleasesuffix was a mistake and we weren't thinking clearly enough when we added it."

To me, this looks like a list of possible suffixes that can include an empty suffix to denote "the real thing", e.g.

    versionsort.suffix = "-alpha" "-beta" "" "-gamma" "-delta"

and that position in the list determines the order of things inside the same family of versions that share the same "non-suffix" part.