Tag names

2002-06-29 Thread Mike Ayers 


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?


Thanks,

/|/|ike


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Re: Tag names

2002-06-30 Thread Ralf Gerlich 

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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