On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:37:17PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2019, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > And, as I said before, a release branch is a totally different animal > > from releases (release tags). We do this correctly now, let's keep it > > that way? > > By convention, a branch in SVN lives in /branches and a branch in git > lives in refs/heads/, whereas a tag in SVN lives in /tags and a tag in git > lives in refs/tags/. This doesn't require any particular naming > convention within those directories, but it's helpful to avoid actually > having a branch and a tag with the same name.
Yes, exactly. It's inconvenient and confusing in multiple ways to have the same names for branches and tags. > The avoidance of '.' in branch and tag names is, I'm pretty sure, a legacy > of CVS restrictions on valid names for branches and tags. Those > restrictions are not relevant to git or SVN; if picking any new convention > it seems appropriate for the tag for GCC 10.1 to say "10.1" somewhere in > its name rather than "10_1". Avoiding underscores is always welcome :-) Segher
