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I actually think the v might be necessary, in the case that someone uses date tags (ex: 4.20.2010). The v helps clarify it is in fact a version.

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I think the SemVerTag spec is important even if only to remind people that they should be tagging their releases. It is optional for a reason, and that is because many people have pre-existing noncompliant formats or don't like the vX.Y.Z format for some reason.

The format is arbitrary, but a prefixed 'v' is common practice already and virtually guarantees that all tags will show up together in a list and exclude ambiguous matches as @postmodern has noted.

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If one used date tags then it makes some sense (though one could distinguish . and - if really necessary). I've never heard of anyone using date tags before, and I don't see a reason to do so --can't you always look up a commit by date? But in any case, it's not a big deal, I have found release tags without the the v to work well, and to me a better choice. It would be nice if SemVerTag were open to it --perhaps a broader mandate to just have a consistent release tagging scheme containing the version. But as pointed out, SemVerTag is optional and non-essential to more fundamental concerns of SemVer. Thanks.

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