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Re: Autodiscovery of git repositories from HTML

From
Jan Krüger <jk@jk.gs>
Date
Oct 27, 2009, 13:32 UTC
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<20091027143229.78140450@perceptron>
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> I have a web page which lives in a git repository so that it can be 
> easily mirrored.  I would like to use a "rel" link to the URL of the
> git repository so that it can be automatically discovered, like an
> RSS feed:
> 
> <link rel="alternate" type="???" href="http://example.com/.git"/>
> 
> Is there any existing convention as to what the type should be?

I don't think there is any such convention, since I don't think anyone has done this before (but it would have interesting use cases).

Actually, I don't think rel="alternate" describes the relation well; a repository isn't exactly an alternate version of the document.

If we don't care about the standard, we might want to use something like the widely used rel="shortcut icon", e.g. rel="git repository".

Jan
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