Re: remote#branch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 30, 2007, 23:58 UTC
Message-ID: <20071030235823.GA22747@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710301232000.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:38:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> So if you want to follow the RFC, you'd better give a real reason. And no, 
> the existence of an RFC, and the fact that people use the same name for 
> things that superficially _look_ the same is not a reason in itself.
> 
> So hands up, people. Anybody who asked for RFC quoting. Give a damn 
> *reason* already!

I didn't ask for RFC quoting, but a nice side effect of URL syntax is that they are machine parseable. If you wanted to write a tool to pick the URLs out of this email and clone them as git repos, then how do you find the end of:

  http://host/git repo with spaces in the path

compared to:

  http://host/git+repo+with+spaces+in+the+path

I don't know if that's worth changing anything in git (in fact, I'm not even clear on _what_ people want to change; the point of this discussion seems to be to argue about terminology). But you did ask for any reason for quoting URLs.

-Peff