Ron writes ("Re: RFC: DEP-14: Recommended layout for Git packaging 
repositories"):
> Why include the epoch in tags at all?

Because we want to be able to tell not just which tag was which but
also what order they are in.

The only reason I excluded epoch from filenames is that it makes tools
like scp and rsync harder to use, and I sometimes wonder if my
decision was wrong.

Ian.


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