From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:55:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Write new giturl(7) manpage
Message-ID: <20100329155523.GA31829@LK-Perkele-V2.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1003291140270.14365@iabervon.org>

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:48:18AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> 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