On Mon, Apr 02 2018, Harald Nordgren wrote:
> Create the options '-V ' and '--version-sort' to sort
> 'git ls-remote' output by version semantics. This is useful e.g. for
> the Go repository after the release of version 1.10, where otherwise
> v1.10 is sorted before v1.2. See:
>
> $ git ls-remote -t https://go.googlesource.com/go
> ...
> 205f850ceacfc39d1e9d76a9569416284594ce8c refs/tags/go1.1
> d260448f6b6ac10efe4ae7f6dfe944e72bc2a676 refs/tags/go1.1.1
> 1d6d8fca241bb611af51e265c1b5a2e9ae904702 refs/tags/go1.1.2
> bf86aec25972f3a100c3aa58a6abcbcc35bdea49 refs/tags/go1.10
> ac7c0ee26dda18076d5f6c151d8f920b43340ae3 refs/tags/go1.10.1
> 9ce6b5c2ed5d3d5251b9a6a0c548d5fb2c8567e8 refs/tags/go1.10beta1
> 594668a5a96267a46282ce3007a584ec07adf705 refs/tags/go1.10beta2
> 5348aed83e39bd1d450d92d7f627e994c2db6ebf refs/tags/go1.10rc1
> 20e228f2fdb44350c858de941dff4aea9f3127b8 refs/tags/go1.10rc2
> 1c5438aae896edcd1e9f9618f4776517f08053b3 refs/tags/go1.1rc2
> 46a6097aa7943a490e9bd2e04274845d0e5e200f refs/tags/go1.1rc3
> 402d3590b54e4a0df9fb51ed14b2999e85ce0b76 refs/tags/go1.2
> 9c9802fad57c1bcb72ea98c5c55ea2652efc5772 refs/tags/go1.2.1
> ...
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?
> [...]
> @@ -101,13 +115,22 @@ int cmd_ls_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const
> char *prefix)
> if (transport_disconnect(transport))
> return 1;
>
> - if (!dest && !quiet)
> - fprintf(stderr, "From %s\n", *remote->url);
> for ( ; ref; ref = ref->next) {
> if (!check_ref_type(ref, flags))
> continue;
> if (!tail_match(pattern, ref->name))
> continue;
> + REALLOC_ARRAY(refs, nr + 1);
> + refs[nr++] = ref;
> + }
> +
> + if (version_sort)
> + QSORT(refs, nr, cmp_ref_versions);
> +
> + if (!dest && !quiet)
> + fprintf(stderr, "From %s\n", *remote->url);
Is there some subtlety here I'm missing which means that when sorting
we'd now need to print this "From" line later (i.e. after sorting?
