Doesn't it make more sense to have them in alphabetical (natural sort) order? Otherwise looking for a specific tag (especially if there are many) can be very cumbersome.

should we actually put it like cgit? by creation timestamp

For me, sorting by creation seems nice when you're working with a repo on a daily basis. But if you're checking out other repos and you try to find a particular tag, it's certainly easier if sorted in alphabetical order.

FYI, github also sorts newest tags first it seems.

I think (if we keep the sidebar) that we should sort branches by recent activity.

I also think we should only list the first N branches and show a "more..." button

I am not sure we should list tags at all, I rarely use tags on a daily basis

Marking bug as NEW and enhancement.

I've added a preference for the sort order of the references. It now also defaults to sorting by latest activity.

I'm not sure about the more button. I've implemented collapsing/expanding of the headers which could help here, although it's not quite the same. We could however now do the same with tags as we did before which is to collapse them by default.

I've also made the tags collapsed by default. @pbor: if you still feel the need for a "more ..." type thing, please open a separate issue for this.