On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 05:17:52PM +0100, Carsten Mattner wrote: > I'm looking for advice on a tagging scheme, especially pros/cons > of using a 'v' prefix as in v2.1.0 like git does. > > My impression is that using a common prefix for tags makes it > simple to distinguish from maintenance branches for past releases > but it seems that most repositories use tags without a prefix. > Before I settle on using vX.Y.Z (which I favor right now), I'd like to > understand why some projects do not prefix tags.
I cannot speak definitely for people who prefer no prefix, but I imagine that they simply see it as useless noise. Personally, I like the prefix because it lets me wildcard-match only the releases (and not other random tags I might have): git tag -l 'v*' Of course I quite often want to drop release-candidate tags from such a list, too, and I have to resort to "grep -v -- -rc" to do so. :) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
