From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remote#branch
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:02:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071030160232.GB2640@hermes.priv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710300738550.30120@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:59:45AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Not that I care, but git should probably handle things consistently.
>
> Git has been, and *is* entirely consistent. It uses convenient repo names.
> If you don't want to call them url's, then call them "repository name".
> Call them whatever. But they are 100% obvious, even if there are multiple
> forms of them (and *none* of the forms do any quoting at all):
>
> - <remote shorthand> ("origin")
> - <path> ("../git.git")
> - <host>:<path> ("master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/...")
> - <protocol>://<host>/<path> ("git://repo.or.cz/...")
>
> See? We may not follow RFC's, but we follow "easy to use".
Well, only the last one actually looks like a URL, so that is the only this
discussion is about. I don't think anyone is suggesting that the first three
be changed at all. So, to use your terminology, git has a variety of ways to
specify a repo name, one of which happens to be a URL (or looks like one). The
suggestion is that we should make that way (and only that way) behave like a
RFC URL.
And git should be consistent with web browsers, automatically quoting things
it gets passed. I think the only point of contention is probably how to deal
with URLs that git receives that are already quoted.
1. We ignore the quoting and re-encode everything for the http transport.
2. We honour the encoding and decode everything for the git transport.
3. We handle git:// and http:// different, so that the three git:// URLs below
refer to different repositories, while the three http:// URLs give refer to
the same repository.
> > git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
> > git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux+acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
> > git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux%20acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
>
> > http://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
> > http://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux+acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
> > http://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux%20acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
The third possibility is probably what we do now, which is why I am suggesting
git is inconsistent. The first will fall down when using a repository that is
colocated, and somebody copies a URL from the web browsers location bar (which
will be properly encoded). Which leaves the second.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-30 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 21:38 [PATCH] Git homepage: remove all the references to Cogito Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-16 2:19 ` Petr Baudis
2007-10-16 7:50 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-10-16 8:01 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2007-10-16 9:04 ` [PATCH] gitweb: Speed up get_projects_list for large source trees Luke Lu
2007-10-16 16:55 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-16 23:20 ` Petr Baudis
2007-10-16 10:49 ` cogito and remote#branch, was Re: [PATCH] Git homepage: remove all the references to Cogito Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-16 21:09 ` remote#branch Jan Hudec
2007-10-16 21:35 ` remote#branch Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-27 20:47 ` remote#branch Jan Hudec
2007-10-27 23:01 ` remote#branch Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-29 17:40 ` remote#branch Jan Hudec
2007-10-29 18:17 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-29 21:49 ` remote#branch Theodore Tso
2007-10-29 22:57 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-29 23:49 ` remote#branch Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-30 3:01 ` remote#branch Theodore Tso
2007-10-30 3:40 ` remote#branch Junio C Hamano
2007-10-30 4:40 ` remote#branch Theodore Tso
2007-10-30 4:51 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 5:37 ` remote#branch Tom Prince
2007-10-30 14:59 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 16:02 ` Tom Prince [this message]
2007-10-30 17:39 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 17:49 ` remote#branch Matthieu Moy
2007-10-30 17:58 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 18:19 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 19:18 ` remote#branch Pascal Obry
2007-10-30 19:38 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 20:15 ` remote#branch Randal L. Schwartz
2007-10-30 20:30 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-30 20:36 ` remote#branch Nicolas Pitre
2007-10-30 23:58 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 0:12 ` remote#branch Jakub Narebski
2007-10-31 1:38 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 1:49 ` remote#branch Jakub Narebski
2007-10-31 1:57 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 7:09 ` remote#branch Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-31 8:35 ` remote#branch Mike Hommey
2007-10-31 9:03 ` remote#branch Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-31 9:15 ` remote#branch Mike Hommey
2007-11-01 0:22 ` remote#branch Jakub Narebski
2007-11-01 5:11 ` remote#branch Theodore Tso
2007-11-01 7:29 ` remote#branch Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-31 9:33 ` remote#branch Pascal Obry
2007-10-31 6:42 ` remote#branch David Kastrup
2007-10-31 15:28 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 20:47 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 21:01 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 21:26 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 21:28 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 21:07 ` remote#branch Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-31 21:31 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 6:39 ` remote#branch David Kastrup
2007-10-31 8:16 ` remote#branch Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-31 8:25 ` remote#branch Robin Rosenberg
2007-10-31 9:34 ` remote#branch Pascal Obry
2007-10-31 17:13 ` remote#branch Petr Baudis
2007-10-30 19:15 ` remote#branch Pascal Obry
2007-10-30 19:36 ` remote#branch Jan Hudec
2007-10-30 19:53 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 19:29 ` remote#branch Erik Warendorph
2007-10-30 10:02 ` remote#branch Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-31 0:41 ` remote#branch Martin Langhoff
2007-10-31 0:59 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 1:43 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 1:49 ` remote#branch Martin Langhoff
2007-10-31 1:59 ` remote#branch Jeff King
2007-10-31 3:08 ` remote#branch Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-30 4:50 ` remote#branch Linus Torvalds
2007-10-29 18:32 ` remote#branch Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-16 22:16 ` cogito and remote#branch, was Re: [PATCH] Git homepage: remove all the references to Cogito Jonas Fonseca
2007-10-31 17:09 ` Petr Baudis
2007-10-31 21:17 ` Jonas Fonseca
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