Joseph Myers <[email protected]>:
> 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".
That is correct. I recommend mapping tags from using "_" to using
".", they're just plain more readable that way. I have done this in
previous conversions.
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