On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Matthieu Moy <matthieu....@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote: > Karthik Nayak <karthik....@gmail.com> writes: > >> Add support to sort by version using the "v:refname" and >> "version:refname" option. This is achieved by using the >> 'version_cmp()' function as the comparing function for qsort. > > You should elaborate on why you need this. Given the context, I can > guess that you will need this to implement tag, but for example I first > wondered why you needed both version: and v:, but I guess it comes from > the fact that 'git tag --sort' can take version:refname or v:refname. > > I think this deserves a test and documentation in for-each-ref.txt.
I'll add it to "for-each-ref.txt" documentation. About the tests, there are already tests for the same in git-tag.txt and that's the only reason I did not repeat the tests in for-each-ref. > > As-is, the code is a bit hard to understand. I first saw you were > allowing > > git for-each-ref --format '%(version:refname)' > > (which you are, but only as a side effect), and then understood that > this was also allowing > > git for-each-ref --sort version:refname > > A test would have shown me this immediately. Some hints in the commit > message would clearly have helped too. > Most of the sorting options have side effects in "--format", but yeah will add details in the commit message. -- Regards, Karthik Nayak -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
