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.
I would just make two tags, one for tzcode and one for tzdata. They will probably frequently come in pairs, but that's fine.
Someone else (I forgot who, sorry) said that there is really just one version number, not two, so therefore there are gaps in one or the other versions' numbering. For example, there was no tzcode2011h release because the code didn't change between 2011g and 2011h. In that case, I messed up with the latest release, since I thought that the code and data version numbers were independent. I'll send a proposed patch to the mailing list shortly (PATCH 4/4) to switch back to a single version number, so that the next releases are 2012e for both code and data. 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.