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Re: Regarding the depreciation of ssh+git/git+ssh protocols

From
Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date
Mar 17, 2021, 14:50 UTC
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On Tue Mar 16, 2021 at 5:28 PM EDT, Jeff King wrote:
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> Git remotes are most definitely not just URIs. Some valid remotes are:
> ".", "foo", "/tmp/foo", "c:\foo", "example.com:foo". The parser inside
> Git has rules to distinguish these from actual rfc3986-compliant URIs.
>
> Now I don't know much about the parsing code in, say, git-lfs, or how
> much of pain it would be to add a new scheme for something that _does_
> conform to rfc3986. But it's not necessarily as easy as "you should be
> using a compliant URI parser".

Sorry, I meant to say that git remotes are a superset of URIs, so a conformant URI parser already has to be involved - I didn't mean that all git remotes are URIs.

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  1. Drew DeVaultMar 15, 2021
  2. Jonathan NiederMar 15, 2021
  3. Drew DeVaultMar 15, 2021
  4. brian m. carlsonMar 15, 2021
  5. Drew DeVaultMar 16, 2021
  6. Jonathan NiederMar 16, 2021
  7. Drew DeVaultMar 16, 2021
  8. Jeff KingMar 16, 2021
  9. Drew DeVaultMar 17, 2021
  10. Junio C HamanoMar 18, 2021
  11. Drew DeVaultMar 18, 2021
  12. Eli SchwartzMar 16, 2021
  13. brian m. carlsonMar 16, 2021
  14. Drew DeVaultMar 16, 2021
  15. Jeff KingMar 16, 2021
  16. Drew DeVaultMar 17, 2021
  17. Jakub NarębskiMar 17, 2021
  18. Drew DeVaultMar 17, 2021
  19. brian m. carlsonMar 17, 2021
  20. Drew DeVaultMar 18, 2021
  21. Eli SchwartzMar 16, 2021
  22. Jonathan NiederMar 17, 2021
  23. Eli SchwartzMar 31, 2021
  24. Mark LodatoApr 7, 2021
  25. Junio C HamanoApr 7, 2021
  26. Kerry, RichardApr 13, 2021
  27. Drew DeVaultMar 16, 2021

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