Re: [PATCH 5/5] builtin-remote: Make "remote -v" display push urls

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2009, 18:30 UTC
Message-ID: <7vtz2pmf98.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A2EA04D.9080405@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 09.06.2009 18:25:
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Example with "mjg" having 1 url and 1 pushurl, "origin" having 3 urls,
>>> sb having 1 url:
>>>
>>> mjg     git://repo.or.cz/git/mjg.git (fetch)
>>> mjg     repoor:/srv/git/git/mjg.git (push)
>>> origin  git://repo.or.cz/git.git (fetch)
>>> origin  git://repo.or.cz/git.git (push)
>>> origin  git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git (push)
>>> origin  git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git (push)
>>> sb      git://repo.or.cz/git/sbeyer.git (fetch)
>>> sb      git://repo.or.cz/git/sbeyer.git (push)
>> 
>> The readers will get distracted, saying "eh, git:// can be used for push?"
>> (and the answer is "yes, sometimes, but not for repo.or.cz") even though
>> that is not the point of these illustrations.  For these examles, I think
>> it is better to use "repo.or.cz:foo.git" style, instead of "git://".
>
> Uhm, isn't host:foo.git equivalent to ssh://host/foo.git?

The primary point is git:// is usually considered read-only and not for push. I personally am more used to host:repo and that is why I wrote it that way; besides, the second line in your example already uses that notation, not the ssh:// one.