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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change git-cvsimport to handle slashes in CVS tags
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:47:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43628E6A.7000104@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510281151450.4664@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Is "_" the right thing to replace it with, though? To me, "_" replaces 
> either a space or a dash, while a slash could be replaced by something 
> more like a special character.
> 

If nothing else it creates a nice symmetry, since CVS can't use '.' in 
tags (which only is the most common character in nearly all versioning 
schemes), and which is commonly replaced by '_'.  We already have the -m 
option to change that back to dots, so we'd go:

'/' -> '_' -> '.'

... which at least means no info loss.

	-hpa

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-28 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-28 18:46 [PATCH] Change git-cvsimport to handle slashes in CVS tags Wayne Scott
2005-10-28 18:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-10-28 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-10-28 20:29   ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-28 20:47   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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