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add option to sort by commit date

See original GitHub issue

Currently, versions are sorted by semver or string comparison but I want to sort by commit date.

We can get sorted tag list by git tag -l --sort=-committerdate.

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Created 3 years ago
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anatawa12commented, May 23, 2021

I think an option to sort by git --sort option is good to support wide-range of usages.

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anatawa12commented, May 23, 2021

I’m trying to think of a reason as to why you would ever want to sort your releases by committerdate?

In my project, To show both snapshots and releases.

Ah, true, but then creatordate (the date it was tagged) would work fine for that too?

I didn’t know creatordate but I think that also work fine.

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