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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
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8.3 Using Valid Names for Tags and Branches

Let’s talk about valid names for tags and branches before we jump off into some specific types of organization you can employ in Git.

Git is pretty liberal in what you can do, but there are a few things to avoid.

First, you can use a forward slash (/) in a tag or branch name, but it can’t end with the slash. This allows you to organize tags and branches into directory-like structures.

You can also use periods (.) in the name, but Git will not allow the first portion of a path element in the name to begin with a period. This means that releases/1.0 is a valid tag name, but neither releases/.1.0 nor .releases/1.0 is.

If you’re familiar with the file system on Linux or BSD/Mac OS X, you probably ...

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