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Re: [BUG] Colon in remote urls

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date
Dec 11, 2016, 14:51 UTC
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From: "Klaus Ethgen" <Klaus@Ethgen.ch>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
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> Am Sa den 10. Dez 2016 um 19:18 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
>> On Sat, 10 Dec 2016, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
>> > Am Fr den  9. Dez 2016 um 22:32 schrieb Johannes Sixt:
>> > > There are too many systems out there that use a backslash in path 
>> > > names. I
>> > > don't think it is wise to use it also as the quoting character.
>> > Well, the minority, I believe. And only the minority where the command
>> > line git is used anywhere.
>>
>> Please provide evidence for such bold assumptions.
>
> How is it "bold" to see that the majority of widows users does not use
> or even like command line tools. And as git is command line tool (most
> of them), users does use third party tools instead of the original.
>
> I know companies where the "developers" doesn't even know of the
> existent of a git command line use. They look with owe when they see
> that I use a shell to use git.
>

Hasn't this drifted a little off topic. The issue was typeable characters in URLs and how that affects the accessibility of various paths.

We (Git) should be avoiding lock-in to particular systems where possible.
--
Philip
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Message 43 of 46 in “[BUG] Colon in remote urls”
  1. Klaus EthgenDec 9, 2016
  2. Jeff KingDec 9, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2016
  4. Jeff KingDec 10, 2016
  5. 0/2 handling alternates paths with colonsJeff King, Dec 12, 2016
  6. 1/2 alternates: accept double-quoted pathsJeff King, Dec 12, 2016
  7. Duy NguyenDec 13, 2016
  8. Jeff KingDec 13, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  10. Duy NguyenDec 17, 2016
  11. 2/2 tmp-objdir: quote paths we add to alternatesJeff King, Dec 12, 2016
  12. Johannes SixtDec 12, 2016
  13. Jeff KingDec 13, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  15. Jeff KingDec 13, 2016
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  17. 3/2 t5547-push-quarantine: run the path separator test on Windows, tooJohannes Sixt, Dec 13, 2016
  18. Jeff KingDec 13, 2016
  19. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  20. 4/2 t5615-alternate-env: double-quotes in file names do not work on WindowsJohannes Sixt, Dec 21, 2016
  21. Jeff KingDec 21, 2016
  22. Johannes SixtDec 22, 2016
  23. Johannes SixtDec 22, 2016
  24. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2016
  25. Jeff KingDec 22, 2016
  26. Junio C HamanoDec 12, 2016
  27. Jeff KingDec 13, 2016
  28. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  29. Jeff KingDec 13, 2016
  30. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2016
  31. Jeff KingDec 13, 2016
  32. Klaus EthgenDec 10, 2016
  33. Jeff KingDec 10, 2016
  34. Klaus EthgenDec 10, 2016
  35. Johannes SixtDec 9, 2016
  36. Jeff KingDec 10, 2016
  37. Klaus EthgenDec 10, 2016
  38. Jeff KingDec 10, 2016
  39. Klaus EthgenDec 10, 2016
  40. Klaus EthgenDec 10, 2016
  41. Johannes SchindelinDec 10, 2016
  42. Klaus EthgenDec 11, 2016
  43. Philip OakleyDec 11, 2016
  44. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2016
  45. Klaus EthgenDec 12, 2016
  46. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2016

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