[Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 27 18:36:35 CEST 2010

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:25:17 -0400 Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: .. > If so, then I say in hg, nuke the tags we don't care about and sanitize the > release tags to something that obvious and can't collide (e.g. r311 is 3.1.1 > or 3.11? - yes despite Guido's Rule of Version Numbering).  I'd personally be > fine using the hexversion or even "3.1.1" as the tag name. >

+1 Apart from being ambiguous, rXYZ notation conflicts with the tracker autoformat rule that links rNNN to svn revision.

And also, given that many hg commands can be specified a tag name using "-rXXX", having to write "-rr311" would be a bit awkward.

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