Branch and tag deletions

[Eric S. Raymond]

Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>:
> The avoidance of '.' in branch and tag names is, I'm pretty sure, a legacy 
> of CVS restrictions on valid names for branches and tags.  Those 
> restrictions are not relevant to git or SVN; if picking any new convention 
> it seems appropriate for the tag for GCC 10.1 to say "10.1" somewhere in 
> its name rather than "10_1".

That is correct.  I recommend mapping tags from using "_" to using
".", they're just plain more readable that way.  I have done this in 
previous conversions.
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