Re: [PATCH] ls-remote: create option to sort by versions

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

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?