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CMCarsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 25, 2014, 16:17 UTC
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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.

Any comments?
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