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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Subject: Re: remote#branch
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:25:54 +0100
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Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
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	Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>,
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	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
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	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
	Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>,
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To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
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onsdag 31 oktober 2007 skrev David Kastrup:
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:38:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >> So if you want to follow the RFC, you'd better give a real reason. And no, 
> >> the existence of an RFC, and the fact that people use the same name for 
> >> things that superficially _look_ the same is not a reason in itself.
> >> 
> >> So hands up, people. Anybody who asked for RFC quoting. Give a damn 
> >> *reason* already!
> >
> > I didn't ask for RFC quoting, but a nice side effect of URL syntax is
> > that they are machine parseable. If you wanted to write a tool to pick
> > the URLs out of this email and clone them as git repos, then how do you
> > find the end of:
> >
> >   http://host/git repo with spaces in the path
> >
> > compared to:
> >
> >   http://host/git+repo+with+spaces+in+the+path
> 
> You just write <URL:http://host/git repo with spaces in the path> and
> have a good chance it will work.

It doesn't with KMail.

-- robin