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Re: [PATCH] Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Aug 17, 2005, 07:27 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> That may be true, but CVS branches being named "Hänsel/Gretel" do not 
> logically denote hierarchies. I never ever saw hierarchical CVS branch 
> names with a "/" separator. I saw some with a "." separator.
>
> My feeling is that it would be wrong to map CVS branch names to a 
> hierarchy.

Although I've used / in CVS branch names to denote hierarchy, I now agree with you for a different reason. A CVS repository can have branches "Hnsel" and "Hnsel/Gretel" at the same time, which we cannot express it with '/'.

However, this may make CVS tags Hnsel/Gretel and Hnsel-Gretel clash, so maybe the name mangling should be made somehow configurable?

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  5. Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their nameJohannes Schindelin, Aug 17, 2005

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