From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [RFH] GSoC 2015 application Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:13:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20150220071342.GB8763@peff.net> References: <20150218191417.GA7767@peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Git Mailing List To: Duy Nguyen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 20 08:13:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YOhmX-0006qf-Ht for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:13:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753092AbbBTHNp (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:13:45 -0500 Received: from cloud.peff.net ([50.56.180.127]:51398 "HELO cloud.peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752160AbbBTHNo (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:13:44 -0500 Received: (qmail 6855 invoked by uid 102); 20 Feb 2015 07:13:45 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.1) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:13:45 -0600 Received: (qmail 7629 invoked by uid 107); 20 Feb 2015 07:13:43 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with SMTP; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:13:43 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 20 Feb 2015 02:13:42 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:26:15AM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > and the list of microprojects: > > > > http://git.github.io/SoC-2015-Microprojects.html > > > > There is debian bug 777690 [1] that's basically about making tag's > version sort aware about -rc, -pre suffixes. I imagine it would touch > versioncmp.c and builtin/tag.c (to retrieve the suffixes from config > file). > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777690 I think that's a reasonable thing to work on, but it's too big for a microproject and too small for a GSoC. I think this could be an "extra credit" for the project to unify for-each-ref, "tag -l", and "branch -l", though. That will vastly enhance the supporting abilities the latter two (e.g., you could sort by taggerdate). -Peff