sort branches like tags on RepositoryIndex

[spearce]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 20

On https://eclipse.googlesource.com/jgit/jgit/ branches overflow the list because we
have ancient stable branches that aren't really as relevant. stable-2.2 is more recent
but is buried on the next page.

Tags meanwhile are sorted by tag time and recent tags show up near the top of the list.

I wonder if we shouldn't try to do something similar to sort branches?

Reported by None on 2013-01-09 19:40:34

[spearce]

On https://eclipse.googlesource.com/jgit/jgit/ branches overflow the list because we
have ancient stable branches that aren't really as relevant. stable-2.2 is more recent
but is buried on the next page.

Tags meanwhile are sorted by tag time and recent tags show up near the top of the list.

I wonder if we shouldn't try to do something similar to sort branches?

Reported by None on 2013-01-09 19:40:34

[spearce]

Hm, I can't think of any downside, can you?

Reported by None on 2013-01-10 11:42:00