Cedric Vivier said the following on 05.06.2008 22:08:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
What about people preferring the status quo? I think a command
line option would be in order.
Is there really people preferring the status quo ? ;) Of course we
probably need some debate about making it default or not but you're
completely right there should be an option about that - and maybe a
config variable as well? How about
--sort=ascending|descending|natural (with branch.sort as the
corresponding config var) ?
IMO, we now need to step back, and start considering the ever
expanding complexity of all the Git command line options. Is there
_really_ a need for a command line option to control this? Will people
_really_, for that _one_ invocation change the order of file listing?
Or, will they simply prefer one particular order, set it, and forget it?
We really need to analyze the use-cases, and do everything we can to
avoid confusing clutter.
IMO this feature falls into the "configuration-variable, but not
command-line option" category. (People who _really_ want a different
order, for that _one_ invocation, are most probable also in the group
that can write their own little 3-line script to do this.)
Just my 10NOK..
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.marius
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