Re: remote#branch

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 30, 2007, 17:58 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710301056070.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpq8x5kh4rr.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> > Nobody cares about git being consistent with a web browser.
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> Why do you keep talking about web browser?
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> URLs are _not_ a web-browser thing. A web browser is just _one_
> example of program which uses URLs.

I keep talking about a web browser, because THE ONLY POINT of following a standard is to interoperate.

So if you cannot find something to interoperate with, why the hell would you care about the standard?

So here's a question: why do people bother to quote irrelevant RFC's?

Following those RFC's would make git not interoperate WITH ITSELF, and use illogically different formats for the same things.

So if you want to make that RFC have any relevance what-so-ever, then show some interoperability issue. Which is why I'm bringing up a web browser: that interop issue simply *does*not*exist*.

Why is that so hard to understand?

			Linus