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

I ended up writing a simple shell script to simplify this task.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

TAGS=$(git tag)
CODE=$?

if [ $CODE = 0 ]; then
    echo "$TAGS" | sort -V
fi

exit $CODE

I saved that as git-tags in my $PATH and run git tags whenever I need to list tags.