add option to sort by commit date

[anatawa12]

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.

[cookpete]

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

[ljharb]

To show backports. I often release v2, and then later backport a v1.x patch.

[cookpete]

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

[anatawa12]

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.

[anatawa12]

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