From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:47:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change git-cvsimport to handle slashes in CVS tags
Message-ID: <43628E6A.7000104@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510281151450.4664@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Is "_" the right thing to replace it with, though? To me, "_" replaces 
> either a space or a dash, while a slash could be replaced by something 
> more like a special character.
> 

If nothing else it creates a nice symmetry, since CVS can't use '.' in 
tags (which only is the most common character in nearly all versioning 
schemes), and which is commonly replaced by '_'.  We already have the -m 
option to change that back to dots, so we'd go:

'/' -> '_' -> '.'

... which at least means no info loss.

	-hpa