Re: [RFC PATCH] Write new giturl(7) manpage
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:48:18AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
> > Why doesn't urls.txt document <transport>::<address> syntax? Should I
> > fix this?
>
> One useful way of answering questions like this is to find the commits
> that added the <transport>::<address> syntax (probably easiest with git
> blame), and at the commits that touched urls.txt (probably with git log),
> and see if the reading the messages makes it obvious. I'd guess (without
> actually looking myself) that it was just overlooked.
I think the following commit added that syntax:
commit 87422439d100f020cadb63b5da8495e5fbfb8fa3
Author: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed Nov 18 02:42:26 2009 +0100
Allow specifying the remote helper in the url
The common case for remote helpers will be to import some repository
which can be specified by a single URL. Support this use case by
allowing users to say:
git clone hg::https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/ soc
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>AFAICT, urls.txt hasn't been touched since this commit.
-Ilari