Re: remote#branch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 31, 2007, 01:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20071031013856.GA23274@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fg8h9l$b4n$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:12:37AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> > 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
> You use
> 
>   'http://host/git repo with spaces in the path'

...which is a quoting mechanism, and it's not even one commonly used in emails (i.e., people have written "parse a URL from this text" scripts for RFC-encoded URLs, but _not_ for shell quoting).

-Peff

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