Re: [BUG] Colon in remote urls

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>]

From: "Klaus Ethgen" <Klaus@Ethgen.ch>
To: <git@vger.kernel.org>
> Am Sa den 10. Dez 2016 um 19:18 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
>> On Sat, 10 Dec 2016, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
>> > Am Fr den  9. Dez 2016 um 22:32 schrieb Johannes Sixt:
>> > > There are too many systems out there that use a backslash in path 
>> > > names. I
>> > > don't think it is wise to use it also as the quoting character.
>> > Well, the minority, I believe. And only the minority where the command
>> > line git is used anywhere.
>>
>> Please provide evidence for such bold assumptions.
>
> How is it "bold" to see that the majority of widows users does not use
> or even like command line tools. And as git is command line tool (most
> of them), users does use third party tools instead of the original.
>
> I know companies where the "developers" doesn't even know of the
> existent of a git command line use. They look with owe when they see
> that I use a shell to use git.
>
Hasn't this drifted a little off topic. The issue was typeable characters in 
URLs and how that affects the accessibility of various paths.

We (Git) should be avoiding lock-in to particular systems where possible.

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Philip