On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:40:10PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

Change the output emitted when an ambiguous object is encountered so
that we show tags first, then commits, followed by trees, and finally
blobs. Within each type we show objects in hashcmp() order. Before
this change the objects were only ordered by hashcmp().

The reason for doing this is that the output looks better as a result,
e.g. the v2.17.0 tag before this change on "git show e8f2" would
display:

FWIW, I agree that this gives a big improvement to readability.

-Peff