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>

1 files changed, 50 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/tag.c b/builtin/tag.c
index 1101c19596..e063035515 100644
--- a/builtin/tag.c
+++ b/builtin/tag.c
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ static const char * const git_tag_usage[] = {
 #define SORT_MASK       0x7fff
 #define REVERSE_SORT    0x8000
 
+static int tag_sort;
+
 struct tag_filter {
 	const char **patterns;
 	int lines;
@@ -346,9 +348,51 @@ static const char tag_template_nocleanup[] =
 	"Lines starting with '%c' will be kept; you may remove them"
 	" yourself if you want to.\n");
 
+/*
+ * Parse a sort string, and return 0 if parsed successfully. Will return
+ * non-zero when the sort string does not parse into a known type. If var is
+ * given, the error message becomes a warning and includes information about
+ * the configuration value.
+ */
+static int parse_sort_string(const char *var, const char *arg, int *sort)
+{
+	int type = 0, flags = 0;
+
+	if (skip_prefix(arg, "-", &arg))
+		flags |= REVERSE_SORT;
+
+	if (skip_prefix(arg, "version:", &arg) || skip_prefix(arg, "v:", &arg))
+		type = VERCMP_SORT;
+	else
+		type = STRCMP_SORT;
+
+	if (strcmp(arg, "refname")) {
+		if (!var)
+			return error(_("unsupported sort specification '%s'"), arg);
+		else {
+			warning(_("unsupported sort specification '%s' in variable '%s'"),
+				var, arg);
+			return -1;
+		}
+	}
+
+	*sort = (type | flags);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int git_tag_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 {
-	int status = git_gpg_config(var, value, cb);
+	int status;
+
+	if (!strcmp(var, "tag.sort")) {
+		if (!value)
+			return config_error_nonbool(var);
+		parse_sort_string(var, value, &tag_sort);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	status = git_gpg_config(var, value, cb);
 	if (status)
 		return status;
 	if (starts_with(var, "column."))
@@ -522,20 +566,8 @@ static int parse_opt_points_at(const struct option *opt __attribute__((unused)),
 static int parse_opt_sort(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset)
 {
 	int *sort = opt->value;
-	int flags = 0;
 
-	if (skip_prefix(arg, "-", &arg))
-		flags |= REVERSE_SORT;
-
-	if (skip_prefix(arg, "version:", &arg) || skip_prefix(arg, "v:", &arg))
-		*sort = VERCMP_SORT;
-	else
-		*sort = STRCMP_SORT;
-
-	if (strcmp(arg, "refname"))
-		die(_("unsupported sort specification %s"), arg);
-	*sort |= flags;
-	return 0;
+	return parse_sort_string(NULL, arg, sort);
 }
 
 int cmd_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
@@ -548,7 +580,7 @@ int cmd_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct create_tag_options opt;
 	char *cleanup_arg = NULL;
 	int annotate = 0, force = 0, lines = -1;
-	int cmdmode = 0, sort = 0;
+	int cmdmode = 0;
 	const char *msgfile = NULL, *keyid = NULL;
 	struct msg_arg msg = { 0, STRBUF_INIT };
 	struct commit_list *with_commit = NULL;
@@ -574,7 +606,7 @@ int cmd_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		OPT__FORCE(&force, N_("replace the tag if exists")),
 		OPT_COLUMN(0, "column", &colopts, N_("show tag list in columns")),
 		{
-			OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "sort", &sort, N_("type"), N_("sort tags"),
+			OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "sort", &tag_sort, N_("type"), N_("sort tags"),
 			PARSE_OPT_NONEG, parse_opt_sort
 		},
 
@@ -630,9 +662,9 @@ int cmd_tag(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			copts.padding = 2;
 			run_column_filter(colopts, &copts);
 		}
-		if (lines != -1 && sort)
+		if (lines != -1 && tag_sort)
 			die(_("--sort and -n are incompatible"));
-		ret = list_tags(argv, lines == -1 ? 0 : lines, with_commit, sort);
+		ret = list_tags(argv, lines == -1 ? 0 : lines, with_commit, tag_sort);
 		if (column_active(colopts))
 			stop_column_filter();
 		return ret;