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

Adapt this perl script, which sorts tags that look like client_release/7.2/7.2.25, to your specific tagging scheme.