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
-- 
Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions
in English text in bold font.   -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"


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