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Re: Tag names


From: Ralf Gerlich
Subject: Re: Tag names
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:19:33 +0200
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Hi Mike,

Mike Ayers wrote:

CVS has the (to me, odd) restriction on tags that they may not contain the characters `$,.:;@' . This is puzzling in light of the fact that the most common way, both historically and currently, to tag releases is in x.y.z form. I suspect that there is a standard substitution for the dots. Is there? If so, which char?
Normally one substitutes the dots by '_' or '-'. Still tags may not start with a digit but must begin with a letter. Maybe you want to use what is described in the Cederquist manual: prefixing the version-numbers by the name of the project (CVS version 1.9 would become cvs1-9, cvs-1_9, ...)

HTH,
Ralf





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