From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:21:57 GMT
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Allow SSH style URLS (with extra colon)
Message-ID: <20100130222157.GI9553@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <87tyu3cyy3.fsf@jondo.cante.net>

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 06:57:56PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 
> According to git-clone[1] the SSH protocol is specied as:
> 
>     ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path
> 
> It woudl be nice if the ":" were allowed, so that the familiar SSH style
> patch notation could be used, making the spec:
> 
>     ssh://[user@]host.xz[:[port]]/path
> 
> An example:
> 
>     ssh://foo@examplecom:/path
>                         |
>                         Allowed

But that's not an URL anymore. If you want to use ssh pathspec, write it
as a pathspec, not an URL. Just foo@example.com:/path works fine. ;-)

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis