Re: [Libreoffice-qa] New Bugzilla Version Picker items – 2

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:57:15PM +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 03:45:11PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 17:25 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> > > Just as an hint. Ubuntu/Debian would use something like:
> > >
> > >  3.6.0~alpha1
> > >  3.6.0~alpha1+daily20120606 
> > >  3.6.0~beta1
> > >  3.6.0.1
> >
> > I really like it. I would like to use it in the future for git tags and
> > source tarballs.
> >
> > The problem might be the tilda '~'. It is substituted to $HOME in linux
> > shell. I am not sure about other special meaning in some programing
> > languages or so.
>
> Yes, I mindlessly followed Rene in using _ instead of ~ in git tags, never
> wondering why. _ has the advantage over ~ to be sorted in front of lowercase
> ASCII, so for as long as "subversions" start with some lowercase letters,
> standard ASCII sorting 'does the Right Thing'. But I bet Rene can elaborate
> better on that than me ;)

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534494 seems to have all the
gory details of using _ instead of ~.

Best,

Bjoern