Re: remote#branch

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Oct 31, 2007, 09:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20071031091529.GA25025@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <472844D4.8050306@op5.se>

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:03:16AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:

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> >Or copied from gitweb.
> >
> 
> Perhaps, but I've never seen that done. Partly because you can't be sure
> the HTTP url is the same as the git address (perhaps people are used to
> this from CVS and the likes), and partly because you'd, for most cases,
> want to use git:// or ssh transport instead of http.
> 
> It might be nifty to have gitweb print some git-valid locator for a repo
> though, or even a full copy-pastable "git clone git://host/path/to/repo.git"
> command-line thingie. I'll look into it when I have leisure.

Hum... it already does print http and git "Mirror URL"s which are ready to be copy/pasted to feed git clone arguments.

Mike

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