Merge branch 'sg/fix-versioncmp-with-common-suffix'

The prereleaseSuffix feature of version comparison that is used in
"git tag -l" did not correctly when two or more prereleases for the
same release were present (e.g. when 2.0, 2.0-beta1, and 2.0-beta2
are there and the code needs to compare 2.0-beta1 and 2.0-beta2).

* sg/fix-versioncmp-with-common-suffix:
  versioncmp: generalize version sort suffix reordering
  versioncmp: factor out helper for suffix matching
  versioncmp: use earliest-longest contained suffix to determine sorting order
  versioncmp: cope with common part overlapping with prerelease suffix
  versioncmp: pass full tagnames to swap_prereleases()
  t7004-tag: add version sort tests to show prerelease reordering issues
  t7004-tag: use test_config helper
  t7004-tag: delete unnecessary tags with test_when_finished

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 506431267e..af2ae4cc02 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -3113,17 +3113,39 @@ user.signingKey::
 	This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
 	so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.
 
-versionsort.prereleaseSuffix::
-	When version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], prerelease
-	tags (e.g. "1.0-rc1") may appear after the main release
-	"1.0". By specifying the suffix "-rc" in this variable,
-	"1.0-rc1" will appear before "1.0".
-+
-This variable can be specified multiple times, once per suffix. The
-order of suffixes in the config file determines the sorting order
-(e.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the config file then 1.0-preXX
-is sorted before 1.0-rcXX). The sorting order between different
-suffixes is undefined if they are in multiple config files.
+versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated)::
+	Deprecated alias for `versionsort.suffix`.  Ignored if
+	`versionsort.suffix` is set.
+
+versionsort.suffix::
+	Even when version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], tagnames
+	with the same base version but different suffixes are still sorted
+	lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags appearing
+	after the main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after "1.0").  This
+	variable can be specified to determine the sorting order of tags
+	with different suffixes.
++
+By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname containing
+that suffix will appear before the corresponding main release.  E.g. if
+the variable is set to "-rc", then all "1.0-rcX" tags will appear before
+"1.0".  If specified multiple times, once per suffix, then the order of
+suffixes in the configuration will determine the sorting order of tagnames
+with those suffixes.  E.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the
+configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any
+"1.0-rcX" tags.  The placement of the main release tag relative to tags
+with various suffixes can be determined by specifying the empty suffix
+among those other suffixes.  E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and
+"-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags
+are listed first, followed by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally
+"v4.8-bfsX".
++
+If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will
+be sorted according to the suffix which starts at the earliest position in
+the tagname.  If more than one different matching suffixes start at
+that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted according to the
+longest of those suffixes.
+The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are
+in multiple config files.
 
 web.browser::
 	Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.