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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular


From: Mirian Crzig Lennox
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:55:27 -0500
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address@hidden (Neil Stevens) writes:
> On Monday January 26, 2004 7:44 pm, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:
>> Well, here's the thing: I would dearly love to sell my workplace on
>> the idea of ditching CVS for Arch.  However, that won't happen unless
>> Arch can support our version naming scheme, which is typically
>> [productname]-x.y-rel-z (for natural numbers x,y and z).  For example,
>> they want to be able to tag something as "2.1-alpha-4", "2.1-beta-3",
>> "2.1-rc5", and so on.  They most definitely are NOT interested in
>> saying "alpha-2.1.4", "beta-2.1.3", "rc-2.1.5", etc. because those
>> names have entirely different meanings to them, and to our customers
>> and beta sites.
>
> But CVS branches can't start with a number, either.  How do you work around=
> =20
> that now?

We prepend the product name and represent dots as underscores,
e.g. "productname-2_1-alpha-4".

We could even do that in Arch, if underscores were legal in branch
names.

--Mirian




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