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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Git tag output order is incorrect (IMHO)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:40:55 -0700
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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Rahul Bansal <rahul.bansal@rtcamp.com> writes:
>
>> IMHO "git tag" is expected to show tag-list ordered by versions. 
>
> A git tag can be anything, not related to versions at all.

Correct.

But that does not prevent somebody to add "git tag --sort=X" option
to the command, just like "git for-each-ref" has "--sort=X" option.