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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> You can define values to optional negatives and optional positives to
> express a more
> elaborate sort order e.g.
>
>   1.0-pre12 < 1.0-rc0 < 1.0 < 1.0-post1
>
> even though "-post" does not have to be declared as optional positive.

... that is, you say "-pre" is a more negative optional than "-rc"
that is also a negative optional.