Re: history damage in linux.git

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Hi Linus,

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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).

Turns out it is pretty easy to implement this in name-rev. Expect the
patch in your inbox in a minute.

Ciao,
Dscho
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