How to sort git tags by version string order of form rc-X.Y.Z.W?

Question

When I enter a command:

git tag -l

I get such results:

rc-0.9.0.0
rc-0.9.0.1
rc-0.9.0.10
rc-0.9.0.11
rc-0.9.0.12
rc-0.9.0.2         


        

Answer 1

Use version sort

git tag -l | sort -V

or for git version >= 2.0

git tag -l --sort=v:refname
git tag -l --sort=-v:refname # reverse