Re: branch snapshot version tag

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

H,.J worote:

>>I don't think you can use `.' in tag. I always turn `.' into `_' and
>>use it as my cvs tag.

Then CGF wrote:

> 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.

Er, I'm refering to the ``version tag'' stored in the file gdb/version.in.

 >> 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

Andrew