Thanks for all the discussion! I think I figured out a way to reuse more ref-filter.c machinery. I will submit another patchset shortly. On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> This is a sensible thing to want, but why not follow the UI we have for >> this with git-tag? I.e. --sort=<key> & -i (or --ignore-case)? Of course >> ls-remote doesn't just show tags, so maybe we'd want --tag-sort=<key> >> and --ignore-tag-case or something, but the rest should be equivalent, >> no? > > Yeah, and if we can reuse more of ref-filter.c machinery (which was > factored out of for-each-ref and tag you suggested borrows from), > that would be even better. In the context of ls-remote, however, we > cannot inspect the object (we typically do not have them yet), so it > may not be practical, but I agree with your suggestion---we should > match the behaviour at the UI level at least when we can. >