From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:27:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Also handle CVS branches with a '/' in their name
Message-ID: <7vbr3x10rr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508170906480.10754@wgmdd8.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 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?