Is it bad practice to allow dots in SVN tags/branches' names?

In my SVN repository tags are listed by version where name contains dots. e.g. 0.10 or 0.12.1

branches are named like proj-0.24-rc

In the same time, for example in Mono project branches has not dots.

Is it some practice to avoid d开发者_开发技巧ots? Could it be treated like extension delimiter (by web server where repository is been served), etc?

I think many large projects create tags with dots/periods, so I don't think there is anything wrong with it (at least not from a Subversion standpoint).

If you have some special software that is being thrown off by the periods... Then I guess that is another story.

Watch out for SVN identifiers which make problems on some platforms. For example, Windows can't deal with names only differing in capitalization. Also certain characters (:, /, \ etc.) are reserved on certain platforms and shouldn't be used.

I'm not aware of any platform... well, besides CPM or DOS, that is, so let's say: I'm not aware of any relevant platform having trouble with arbitrary dots in file system identifiers, so I think these are not a problem.

There certainly is not a technical limitation.

I have been using dots for branch and tag names for ages and never encountered any problems with any of the SVN clients I have used.