[tz] technical details for today's code and data release
Derick Rethans
tz at derickrethans.nl
Wed Jul 25 15:21:58 UTC 2012
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 07/20/2012 10:45 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > I would tend to use
> > tzcode/AAAAb and tzdata/CCCCd for the tags.
>
> What is the advantage of using a slash in the tags? Sorry, I don't
> know the details of tagging in git; I tend to not use tags myself.
Tags are just freeform descriptors, and have no real special meaning.
> This would also suggest that we have just one set of tags in the
> repository, tz/2012e or tz2012e say, depending on whether that
> slash is helpful.
The / has no advantage in this case. It would say that it would just
make it more annoying to deal with f.e. in case you want to use a
directory for each tag (with / being the directory separator).
cheers,
Derick
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