Suggestion: Remove `v` from version numbers (e.g. `6.3.5` instead of `v6.3.5`

[ThomasLandauer]

Description

IMO, this just adds noise to the output of composer show. And since it's always clear that these numbers denote the version, there's no need to "label" them with the v prefix.

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[stof]

Having tags prefixed with v actually helps a lot when contributing to Symfony and relying on git completion to switch branch: writing git checkout 6. and then triggering completion will suggest me only the few branches and not 200 tags for all the 6.x releases.
So I would not remove the prefix from tag names.

If the v prefix bothers you in the composer show output, you might try to suggest a feature to composer to allow hiding it (as composer treats it as optional for tag names) but they might decide it is not worth it.

[derrabus]

I don't think that this bit of visual noise justifies a crusade against the v in all projects that use it in their tags. Normalizing version numbers in that output would be an easy thing for Composer. I agree that if this problem should be solved, it should be solved in Composer.

Even though the v prefix is not a part of SemVer specification it helps in daily work when working with git.

[lyrixx]

I totally agree with @stof, @derrabus and @javaDeveloperKid ; I prefer also to kept the v prefix.

[ThomasLandauer]

OK, thanks, I suggested it for composer: composer/composer#11925