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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change git-cvsimport to handle slashes in CVS tags
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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