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

Combining the answers already here:

Local repository

git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-' tag --list --sort=-v:refname

• suffix=- will prevent 2.0-rc coming "after" 2.0
• --sort=- will put the highest version number at the top.

Remote repository

git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-' ls-remote -t --exit-code --refs --sort=-v:refname "$repo_url" \
    | sed -E 's/^[[:xdigit:]]+[[:space:]]+refs\/tags\/(.+)/\1/g'

The advantage of this is that no objects are downloaded from the remote.

For more info see this answer.