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

From: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date: Mar 17, 2021, 14:53 UTC
Message-ID: <C9ZPMTQD2PJE.3N2S1VX9NVK2T@taiga>
In-Reply-To: <85r1kewqui.fsf@gmail.com>

On Tue Mar 16, 2021 at 8:45 PM EDT, Jakub Narębski wrote:

> Well, thara is a total of one protocol (CoAP) that uses '+' based
> schemas, namely: coap+tcp, coap+ws, coaps+tcp, coaps+ws (well at least
> out of those protocols that made it into IANA).

One is greater than zero! It is blessed, even if only a little. We can just go ask the IANA about it if we want to further entertain the idea that this approach is non-kosher, but, like you said: if the RFC states it, then it is a standard construct.

> Though it in this case neither of those parts of schema joined by the
> '+' sign is an application name...

git is both an application name and a protocol name. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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> > Aye, people do expect it to work. The problem is not going to go away.
>
> To reiterate, the idea of "prefixed URLs", that is using git+https://
> and git+ssh:// is to denote that said URL is only usable by Git, without
> any additional out-of-band information (like other attributes on <a>
> element or its encompassing element)?

Correct.