versioncmp: use earliest-longest contained suffix to determine sorting order

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 2e053f9048876cfcd3a6110d38ec8aeea9baefc1..9078c8c4f4db140955c651c6e16f2f956042dbb8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -3049,8 +3049,10 @@ 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).
 If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will
-be sorted according to the matching suffix which comes first in the
-configuration.
+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.