From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE3341F9FD for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2021 01:16:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234184AbhCPBQA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:16:00 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:49968 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234315AbhCPBPh (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:15:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 593 seconds by postgrey-1.37 at lindbergh.monkeyblade.net; Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:15:37 PDT Received: from out0.migadu.com (out0.migadu.com [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:267::]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7AD2C06174A for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:15:37 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cmpwn.com; s=key1; t=1615856736; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=VCOcwuUm2Hlka/TS8/RaM4EEosdJfwQrO9uN6K7PAsI=; b=OZ7WigxovkrnQWbsmgmvRUntUY1OovmhWxIyIBseFsUVx4DTQ4pN1pG/QRk41tZ4XhCGD7 F9ilz6dG633tndCBBLCYWZziLKSI8UbsfmlGPX4tDzkGjv167DgLEteDss0+YOiwPMrxL8 qWfL2xTIDQN2J2gn/3ZZEMxuHdE+j94wMInGtwmhzpK7RqonMviyJAad44PsJdrUj4kZ+G x9YOPC2zOeVZpxEHEBGROSBQ6ergWexbcppRuNFBSF5egXFDbyMV/PpN4nD9IbEEFVhpW5 PFaiR+003qi+i5YnWieUNpha3yM+o3/kzKmTYReDVwTFC50ySMLdgwyLPV+/dQ== Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:05:34 -0400 Message-Id: To: "Jonathan Nieder" Cc: "brian m. carlson" , Subject: Re: Regarding the depreciation of ssh+git/git+ssh protocols X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: "Drew DeVault" References: In-Reply-To: X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: sir@cmpwn.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon Mar 15, 2021 at 9:02 PM EDT, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I'm not sure it's a disconnect; instead, it just looks like we > disagree. That said, with more details about the use case it might be > possible to sway me in another direction. > > To maintain the URI analogy: the URI does not tell me the content-type > of what I can access from there. Until I know that content-type, I > may not know what the best tool is to access it. git isn't a content type, it's a protocol. git over HTTP or git over SSH is a protocol in its own right, distinct from these base protocols, in the same sense that SSH lives on top of TCP which lives on top of IP which is transmitted to your computer over ethernet or 802.11. It's turtles all the way down. > The root of the disagreement, though, is "Git URLs" looking like a URI > in the first place. They're not meant to be universal at all. They > are specifically for Git. At worst I would call this a happy coincidence. We have this convenient universal format at our disposal, and we would be wise to take advantage of it. Rejecting it on the premise that we never wanted to have it doesn't make sense when we consider that (1) we do have it and (2) it can be of good use to us.