From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: remote#branch Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:57:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20071015233800.6306e414@paolo-desktop> <20071016021933.GH12156@machine.or.cz> <20071016210904.GI26127@efreet.light.src> <20071027204757.GA3058@efreet.light.src> <20071029174000.GA4449@efreet.light.src> <20071029214925.GH21133@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Hudec , Johannes Schindelin , Petr Baudis , Paolo Ciarrocchi , git@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 29 23:58:21 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 1ImdYq-0006MI-Ry for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:58:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752515AbXJ2W6H (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:58:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752417AbXJ2W6G (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:58:06 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:57900 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751783AbXJ2W6E (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:58:04 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l9TMvgTC027311 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:57:43 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l9TMvfli030189; Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:57:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20071029214925.GH21133@thunk.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.436 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_66 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > Well, the confusion is that we refer to things that look like > "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git" as if it were a URL. Sure, but "URL" in human-speak has nothing to do with an RFC. I dislike language-lawyerese. Why the hell do people think that human language should follow the RFC's? Git addresses look like URL's, and they act like URL's, but dammit, git isn't a web browser, and it's not interested in acting like one. And "standards" are only as good as they are useful. XML is a piece of crap despite being a standard because it makes no sense. Similarly, "URL quoting" is a piece of crap when _it_ makes no sense. Having a RFC or an ISO standard doesn't change anything, and doesn't imply that human communication (or indeed, even machine communication) should care. Linus