[Anthill] Customizing Tag Name

[Jim Hague]

On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 23:40, Ben Rady wrote:
> I have my version number all sorted out. The problem is that anthill
> currently appends a 'v' onto the front of the version number to create the
> tag name. I don't want the 'v' (we have an in-house policy on CVS tag
> names).

The CVS repository adapter will prepend a 'v' if the first character of the 
version string isn't a letter. I haven't used CVS for a while, but I think 
this may be a CVS requirement, so it can tell tag names from revision 
numbers. None of the other repository adapters do this, and I know for sure 
that my Subversion tree is full of purely numeric tags.

source/main/java/com/urbancode/anthill/adapter/CVSRepositoryAdapter.java, line 
525.

> Secondly, the version file has additional constraints when building 
> off of a branch. Namely, the branch name must be included in the version
> string.

Sorry, I don't follow. Is this your policy, or something Anthill does?

> I realize that I could write my own version adapter to solve the version
> name problem with the branch, but do I have to write my own repository
> adapter to change the tag name policy?

Yes. I can find no mechanism for altering the tag string from the version 
string, beyond the substitution processing done once the tag string is 
obtains, where any of $,.;:@ are replaced by _.
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