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authorLibravatar Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>2014-07-16 14:48:02 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-07-17 09:22:20 -0700
commitb150794dafb0a7a1c5caba6fdf7d517a1a15cb59 (patch)
treec9be5e6f007751afc160a475fa96040ea048f471 /Documentation
parenttag: fix --sort tests to use cat<<-\EOF format (diff)
downloadtgif-b150794dafb0a7a1c5caba6fdf7d517a1a15cb59.tar.xz
tag: support configuring --sort via .gitconfig
Add support for configuring default sort ordering for git tags. Command line option will override this configured value, using the exact same syntax. Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-tag.txt5
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 9f467d3820..9d4f249606 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2351,6 +2351,11 @@ submodule.<name>.ignore::
"--ignore-submodules" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not
affected by this setting.
+tag.sort::
+ This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when displayed by
+ linkgit:git-tag[1]. Without the "--sort=<value>" option provided, the
+ value of this variable will be used as the default.
+
tar.umask::
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
index b424a1bc48..320908369f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt
@@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ OPTIONS
Sort in a specific order. Supported type is "refname"
(lexicographic order), "version:refname" or "v:refname" (tag
names are treated as versions). Prepend "-" to reverse sort
- order.
+ order. When this option is not given, the sort order defaults to the
+ value configured for the 'tag.sort' variable if it exists, or
+ lexicographic order otherwise. See linkgit:git-config[1].
--column[=<options>]::
--no-column::
@@ -317,6 +319,7 @@ include::date-formats.txt[]
SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-check-ref-format[1].
+linkgit:git-config[1].
GIT
---