From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remote#branch
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:07:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4728EE95.1020004@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071031204729.GB13300@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:28:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> Because we don't care! This is *exactly* why I brought up the whole
>> discussion about "interoperability with a web browser", and pointed out
>> that there is no such thing *anyway*, since a GIT URL is generally not
>> suitable for browsing _regardless_ of any encoding issues!
>>
>> So it doesn't matter one whit if a mail client recognizes GIT URL's or
>> not! Because the mail client cannot do the right thing with them anyway,
>> and would generally think that it's something that it should highlight so
>> that you can browse it!
>
> Two points:
>
> 1. Just because _your_ mail client can't do anything useful with git
> URLs^H^H^H^H repo specifications, doesn't mean that others can't.
>
> 2. You are conflating syntax and semantics. Think of the task I
> mentioned as two subtasks: pulling the location specifier from the
> email, and then doing something useful with it (in this case,
> git-cloning it it). The first subtask depends _only_ on a parseable
> syntax. The user can provide the context necessary for accomplishing
> the second subtask.
>
> For example, consider a terminal that, upon pressing some keyboard
> combination, will highlight the first URL-ish looking blob on the
> screen, prompt you for a command, and then execute '$command $url'. The
> terminal doesn't have to know the semantics of the blob, but it has to
> know the syntax. The user provides the semantics.
>
> And yes, such a terminal exists, and I'm using it right now.
>
Great. Now you just need a git-repo with an url that needs quoting, and
this discussion could at least potentially solve a real problem for someone.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 21:07 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 ` remote#branch Tom Prince
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 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
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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