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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Cc: Kristian Freed <kristian.freed@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How can I automatically create a GIT branch that represents a sequence of tags?
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:16:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52071E2E.2020001@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130810232026.GF25779@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On 08/11/2013 01:20 AM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> [...]
> It would be very hard to do a tool such as you describe, the reason is
> that there's no sane way to order your tags. Git today show tags
> alphabetically, all versions does not have a alphabtic order. [...]
> It would be quite easy to make a script that create such branch for you,
> if you only can sort the tags somehow.

GNU sort has a nice option that can sort this way:

  -V, --version-sort
     Sort by version name and number.  It behaves like a standard sort,
     except that each sequence of decimal digits is treated numerically
     as an index/version number.

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-11  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-10 22:29 How can I automatically create a GIT branch that represents a sequence of tags? Kristian Freed
2013-08-10 23:20 ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-08-11  5:16   ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2013-08-11  6:20     ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-08-11  7:49   ` Philip Oakley
2013-08-11 11:13   ` Kristian Freed
2013-08-11 12:23     ` Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-08-11  9:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-11 10:16 ` Felipe Contreras

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