From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: branch snapshot version tag
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011018112112.D9452@redhat.com>
References: <3BCE6245.9080508@cygnus.com> <20011017224635.A1424@lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00190.html

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:46:35PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:01:57AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> Hmm,
>> 
>> The current branch snapshot process is setting the version tag 
>> (version.in) to YYYYMMDD.  This is a little unfortunate since snapshots 
>> taken from the trunk are also setting version.in to YYYYMMDD. Might be a 
>> good idea if I change it.
>> 
>> My first choice for the snapshot version.in would be 5.0.91-YYYYMMDD but 
>> due to a ``technical problem'' with the snapshot scripts that won't work.
>> 
>> That leads to my second and third choices.
>> 
>> 	5.0.91.YYYYMMDD
>> or 
>> 5.0.91_YYYYMMDD
>
>I don't think you can use `.' in tag. I always turn `.' into `_' and
>use it as my cvs tag.

Ditto.  I use '-' sometimes too for cygwin tags.  I actually thought that
'-' wasn't allowed and had been using '_' but somewhere along the line
I started using '-' by mistake and the tags have been working fine.

cgf