Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... >> When your project does not mind basing the description on rc tags, >> between v3.4-rc1~192^2~9^2 and v3.5-rc1~120^3~76^2, I am not sure if >> we would want to say that "the former is not so longer than the >> latter, so use that", or what kind of heuristics to employ to reach >> that conclusion. Date-based selection (i.e. earliest first) is one >> possibility. Tagname-based selection has the issue of having to >> configure "whose version numbering convention would you use when >> sorting tags, and how you would tell Git that sorting order rule?" > > IMHO git should select based on topology: the first tag that isn't > contained in any other tag still containing the commit in question, only > when ambigous it needs to fall back to other criteria. I think we are in agreement. In the part you chopped from your quote, I said: >> For a possible cleaner alternative semantics, see the other message >> I just sent to the thread. didn't I? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html