From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: remote#branch Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:09:01 +0100 Message-ID: <47282A0D.9010400@op5.se> References: <20071030053732.GA16963@hermes.priv> <20071031013856.GA23274@coredump.intra.peff.net> <200710310249.17233.jnareb@gmail.com> <20071031015708.GA24403@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 31 08:09:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1In7ha-0008Eo-2s for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:09:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753064AbXJaHJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:09:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752961AbXJaHJH (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:09:07 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:51850 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752877AbXJaHJG (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:09:06 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E59301730672; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:08:27 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4K5rWP3qoiRG; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:08:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89FF1173065E; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:08:26 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) In-Reply-To: <20071031015708.GA24403@coredump.intra.peff.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:49:16AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: > >>> ...which is a quoting mechanism, and it's not even one commonly used in >>> emails (i.e., people have written "parse a URL from this text" scripts >>> for RFC-encoded URLs, but _not_ for shell quoting). >> I don't think RFC-encoding is quoting mechanism used in emails, either. > > That's funny, because I have hundreds of mails where that is the case, > and none where people used shell-quoting. Most URLs don't _need_ any > encoding, so we don't notice either way. But are you honestly telling me > that if you needed to communicate a URL with a space via email, you > would write: > > 'http://foo.tld/url with a space' > > rather than: > > http://foo.tld/url+with+a+space > > ? > I think 99% of all URL's communicated via email are copy-pasted from a webbrowsers location bar. I believe most git urls (or grls, or whatever you wanna call them) communicated via email are copy-pasted from ones config, or written out manually. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231