[MERGE] Tagging bzr releases

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

John Arbash Meinel writes:

 > Anyway, I've always used tags of the form:
 >   bzr-1.12rc1
 > 
 > rather than just "1.12rc1".

This is a good idea.  Having bare numerical tags can be an occasion
for mild confusion if projects get merged (or split).  (And of course
it's a habit since CVS doesn't allow leading digits in tags.)

It *may* be useful to have a related convention for releases from
branches; it sometimes happens that a project needs to fork
temporarily, although at the moment that seems unlikely for bzr.