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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: remote#branch
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:39:54 +0100
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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.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum