Re: remote#branch

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 29, 2007, 22:57 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710291545250.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071029214925.GH21133@thunk.org>

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

> 
> Well, the confusion is that we refer to things that look like
> "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git" as if it were a URL.

Sure, but "URL" in human-speak has nothing to do with an RFC.

I dislike language-lawyerese. Why the hell do people think that human language should follow the RFC's?

Git addresses look like URL's, and they act like URL's, but dammit, git isn't a web browser, and it's not interested in acting like one.

And "standards" are only as good as they are useful. XML is a piece of crap despite being a standard because it makes no sense. Similarly, "URL quoting" is a piece of crap when _it_ makes no sense. Having a RFC or an ISO standard doesn't change anything, and doesn't imply that human communication (or indeed, even machine communication) should care.

			Linus