From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:43:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v3] Add support for external programs for handling native fetches
Message-ID: <7v4osm0z6x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908052231461.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > > +int transport_native_helper_init(struct transport *transport)
>> > > +{
>> > > +	struct helper_data *data = xmalloc(sizeof(*data));
>> > > +	char *eom = strchr(transport->url, ':');
>> > 
>> > "End of message"?
>> 
>> "End of method"; that's the "method" part of a URL.
>
> I'd have called that "protocol".  At least that's what java.net.URL 
> calls it, and I just assume that Sun is very much in love with standards, 
> so I could imagine they picked that term from the appropriate RFC.

In RFC parlance that's called <scheme>.