Re: Clarification on the git+ssh and ssh+git schemes
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> On 05 Feb 2016, at 14:11, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I suspect they were not really documented because nobody wanted to
>>> encourage their use. I don't think it would be wrong to document that
>>> they exist and are deprecated, though.
>>
>> They exist because some people seemed to think that people shouldn't
>> use "ssh://" since they thought that only ssh should use that.
>>
>> Which is obviously bullshit, since by that logic all the other formats
>> should have that idiotic "git+" format too ("git+https", anybody?). It
>> doesn't actually help anything, and it only pushes somebodys broken
>> agenda.
>>
>> So there was a push for that silly thing by a couple of people, but it
>> was always wrong. Don't even document it.
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> […]
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>> Leave it in the source code as an option, and maybe add a comment
>> about "This is stupid, but we support it for hysterical raisins".
>
> Sounds good.OK then, let’s remove the reference from the manpage.
As peff guessed, this query is indeed triggered by having to make a decision about whether libgit2 should support them. I suppose we’ll have to go in a similar direction. Support them because people are using them (which is why a user brought it up) but leave a comment that we don’t like it.
Cheers,
can
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@dwim.me>