On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I actually think the best name for aed06b9 is probably:
>
> v3.13-rc1~65^2^2~42
Sounds likely. I don't know how to find that best match without a
complete rewrite, though.
My recent patch that got
v3.13-rc2~32^2^2~47
comes close to that, and the complexity is similar but the numbers are
actually smaller, so I guess my heuristic did indeed find a "simpler"
name, but yes, the one based on 3.13-rc1 would definitely be the
better one.
> which I found by picking the oldest tag from "git tag --contains" and
> plugging it into "git describe --match".
Yeah, so you basically did the "let's figure out minimal inclusion" by hand.
> 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).
Linus
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