Re: [PATCH] Change git-cvsimport to handle slashes in CVS tags

Hmm.. git can certainly handle slashes in tags, but you'd need to basically "mkdir" the path up to there before creating them.

That's probably not the right thing to do for a tag that comes from the outside, since in git, the slashes work like in a filesystem, and should imply grouping (ie you might have a family of tags that is named by usage, and be called something like "release/xyz" or whatever).

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.

Maybe it's just me, but your example "dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3/9/99" might look nicer either of these ways:

 - dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3|9|99 (but "|" is hard to use with shell)
 - dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3.9.99 (CVS tags can't contain '.', right?)
 - dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3:9:99 (confuse with time?)
 - dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3+9+99 (one arithmetic op replaced by another)
 - dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3#9#99 (that's pretty ugly)
 - dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3?9?99 (Wayne might be right after all)
 - dev-stubs-merge-8-1-3_9_99 (maybe Wayne _is_ right?)

I dunno. But maybe we do want the option of just keeping it as a slash, and teach git-cvsimport to create the proper subdirectory prefixes.

I have no idea how to do that in perl, though. Right now it just does

	open(C,">$git_dir/refs/tags/$xtag")

how would you do "create file with all path components"?

		Linus