From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:14:31 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use git-update-ref in scripts. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v3bnpt81e.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I was wondering the URL shorthand you mentioned is being used in > practice. In theory, you do not "have to write out in full" > anymore ;-). Almost always, I end up cut-and-pasting the thing from an email. In many ways, the most irritating part for me about that is that an email that wants to give a publically accessible part has to be something like "Please pull from rsync://rsync.kernel.org/path to get the xyz updates" and then I cut-and-paste it but have to delete the "rsync://", and replace the "rsync.kernel.org/" with "master.kernel.org:/". Sad. So I've actually considered a totally Linus-only hack that does that automatically, ie something like this untested patch.. (same goes for http too, for that matter) Linus diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh --- a/git-parse-remote.sh +++ b/git-parse-remote.sh @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ get_remote_url () { data_source=$(get_data_source "$1") case "$data_source" in '') - echo "$1" ;; + echo "$1" | sed 's/rsync:[^/]*kernel.org/master.kernel.org:/ ;; remotes) sed -ne '/^URL: */{ s///p