Use separate version tag prefixes for releases and hotfixes

[T.J. Crowder]

SourceTree's built-in gitflow features are terrific. One change I'd like to see is to optionally use a different version tag prefix for hotfixes than for releases. Currently, if you specify a version tag prefix when initializing gitflow, it's used both for the tag when you merge a release branch into master and for when you merge a hotfix into master. I'd rather use separate prefixes for that.

[Seth · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, SourceTree simply wraps nvie's gitflow plugin, which does not allow this type of configuration and has had no active development in nearly two years, so I would not expect any change here.

There is a feature request to switch SourceTree to a popular, active fork of nvie's gitflow (https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow). I don't know if this fork allows for the separate prefixes you're requesting, but if you requested there, it would stand a chance of being added.

[T.J. Crowder]

Thanks Seth! Very helpful.