Re: git://github.com/some/thing.git/?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 27, 2012, 18:25 UTC
Message-ID: <7vd37xj3zh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120327163339.GA5941@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:46:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I just noticed that
>> 
>> 	git ls-remote git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git/
>> 
>> works, but neither of the following does:
>> 
>> 	git ls-remote git://git://github.com/gitster/git.git/
>> 	git ls-remote git://git://github.com/gitster/git/
>> 
>> It is just a minor irritation but it would be really nice if you can fix
>> it (please don't spend too much time on it if it is too involved, though).
>
> Of course they don't work, they are malformed. :)

Ahh, drop the duplicated "git://" from the front.

> It took me a minute to figure it out, but I assume the interesting part
> is the trailing slash?

Yes.

> Even with that, though, I think it would be good for the server to be
> liberal in what it accepts.

It is not about being liberal; it is about accepting what we have always accepted.