Re: remote#branch

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 31, 2007, 01:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20071031015708.GA24403@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <200710310249.17233.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:49:16AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> > ...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).
> 
> I don't think RFC-encoding is quoting mechanism used in emails, either.

That's funny, because I have hundreds of mails where that is the case, and none where people used shell-quoting. Most URLs don't _need_ any encoding, so we don't notice either way. But are you honestly telling me that if you needed to communicate a URL with a space via email, you would write:

  'http://foo.tld/url with a space'

rather than:

  http://foo.tld/url+with+a+space

I think the latter is much more common, if only because of the fact that copy and paste from most browsers' location bars gives the encoded version.

-Peff