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Subject: Re: [PATCH] versionsort: support reorder prerelease suffixes
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 04:03:13 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>> How about..
>>
>> ".. "1.0-rc1" will appear before "1.0".  This key can be specified
>> multiple times, one for each suffix. The order of suffixes in the

Minor bike-shedding: s/one for each suffix/once per suffix/

>> config file determines the sorting order (e.g. if "-pre" appears
>> before "-rc" in the config file then 1.0-preXX is sorted before
>> 1.0-rcXX). The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined
>> if they are in multiple config files"
>
> OK. Later we might resurrect that "How would we spell 'reset this
> variable' in our configuration file? Is that even a good idea in
> the first place?" topic and at that time the last sentence may have
> to change to make it more useful, but because we are not there yet,
> the above would be a reasonable description.