Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 04:16:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > - <version> encoding (due to git restrictions):
> > ":" -> "%"
> > "~" -> "_"
I’d rather have something that sorts like Debian versions
in “git tag” output…
> "_" -> "_5f"
> ":" -> "_3a"
> "~" -> "_7e"
Yikes!
tags/foo_3a4b5c-6d
No, thanks. Sure, this would reduce information loss, but… no.
bye,
//mirabilos
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