From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:27:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC] [PATCH v4 4/8] dir: libify and export helper functions from clone.c
Message-ID: <xmqqpmulc7o7.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <68bb457b-9575-c2a1-6d51-fc7cd85a50b7@gmail.com>

Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> writes:

> I wonder what real-world URL has a syntax like 'host.xz:foo/.git' for which
> 'foo' would be an appropriate basename to return. Does a real-world URL of
> this form exist? Or is this just cooked up to demonstrate the basename that
> would be returned for a hypothetical URL like this?

It is not really a URL, but historically we've called them
"scp-style URL".  scp of course copied the syntax from "rcp" where
<hostname> and <pathname> are separated by a colon ':' named a file
or a directory at the named path on the named host.