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

According to this answer, on platforms which don't support sort -V like Windows and OSX, you can use

git tag -l | sort -n -t. -k1,1 -k2,2 -k3,3 -k4,4