Victoria Dye <vdye@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >>> I came across a use case for 'git for-each-ref' at $DAYJOB in which I'd >>> want to sort by a portion of a formatted 'creatordate' (e.g., only the >>> time of day, sans date). When I tried to run something like 'git >>> for-each-ref --sort=creatordate:format:%H:%M:%S', >> >> Hmph, this indeed is interesting ;-) >> >> I wonder if there are other "sort by numeric but the thing could be >> stringified by the end-user" atoms offered by for-each-ref >> machinery. IOW, is the timestamp the only thing that needs this >> fix? > > The only non-FIELD_STR atoms other than the date ones are "objectsize" and > "numparent". "objectsize" has an optional ":disk" modifier, but that doesn't > change formatting (just the value of the integer printed). "numparent" > doesn't have any modifiers, it just prints the integer number of parents. > Otherwise, everything is sorted by string value, so I think only the date > atoms have this kind of mismatch between formatted value and sort value. Thanks.
