Git backend transforming tags/branches incorrectly

[agjohnson]

I had thought that the refactor to version slugs had unified our slugging for VCS versions, but it seems the Git backend is still performing transforms on these names. Is there a reason for this?

For instance, a repository with a tag of "release/foobar" becomes just "foobar" at:
https://github.com/rtfd/readthedocs.org/blob/master/readthedocs/vcs_support/backends/git.py#L113

Shouldn't the VersionSlugField be handling this now?

[humitos]

@agjohnson following you example, what should be the correct slug generated, release-foobar?

[agjohnson]

I think that's fine. The bigger question is why this isn't already happening I suppose. The logic should exist already

[humitos]

There are more discussion in the PR, but the thing is that we were transforming the slug and the verbose_name and we need to transform the slug only.

verbose_name is used for the "Edit on Github" link for example and GH wants the full name in the URL, even with the / on it (release/foobar)