Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] clone: fix hostname parsing when guessing dir

> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 10:34:14AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
>
>> One more question for backwards compatibility remains then.
>> Currently when we clone something like 'http://example.com:2222/'
>> we'd create a git repository '2222' as we'd split on the first
>> occurrence of ':'. Should we remain backwards compatible here, as
>> well, or change the behavior to use 'example.com' as repository
>> name?
>
> I don't think naming the repo "2222" makes much sense; I'd consider it a
> bug. The only sensible names are "example.com" or "example.com:2222"
> (the latter is more specific if you are going to clone the root off of
> several different ports, but that seems rather unlikely; the former is
> probably what I'd expect).