Re: [RFC PATCH] credential: minor documentation fixes

> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 10:44:36AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> > On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 12:45:20AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
> > > 
> > > * the meaning of "exactly" for matching protocol and hostname in the URL
> > >   since 06 are both case insensitive per RFC3986 and we have been
> > >   ambiguous on that, leading to some helpers assuming case or encoding.
> > 
> > Yeah, IIRC we discussed case-sensitivity at the time and went with the
> > stricter behavior in the name of safety over convenience. And I don't
> > think anybody has complained since then. So I'm not really _opposed_ to
> > loosening it to match the URL, but perhaps a maintenance release is not
> > the best time to do so.
> 
> agree, but I was talking not in the context of a feature, but on how we
> are to define the interaction with helpers (which was meant to be part of
> this maintenance release).
> 
> currently (since it is undefined) a naive helper could do a caseless match
> by assuming we really meant url as defined by RFC3986, and therefore affect
> the wrong credential by the operation.