From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: remote#branch Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:38:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20071029174000.GA4449@efreet.light.src> <20071029214925.GH21133@thunk.org> <20071030030104.GK21133@thunk.org> <7vtzo9s221.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071030044026.GA9600@thunk.org> <20071030053732.GA16963@hermes.priv> <20071030160232.GB2640@hermes.priv> <4727839B.9070205@obry.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Matthieu Moy , Tom Prince , Theodore Tso , Junio C Hamano , Jan Hudec , Johannes Schindelin , Petr Baudis , Paolo Ciarrocchi , git@vger.kernel.org To: Pascal Obry X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 30 20:39:49 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 1ImwwC-0005su-Rx for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:39:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752885AbXJ3Tja convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:39:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752812AbXJ3Tj3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:39:29 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:59097 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752786AbXJ3Tj2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:39:28 -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 l9UJcUcO000351 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:38:31 -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 l9UJcRFt024356; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:38:27 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4727839B.9070205@obry.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.431 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 Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Pascal Obry wrote: > Linus Torvalds a =E9crit : > > I keep talking about a web browser, because THE ONLY POINT of follo= wing a=20 > > standard is to interoperate. >=20 > Yes, and since URLs are not used for web browser only I do not see th= e > point to concentrate all this discussion about a single possible usag= e. Hey, it's find if you can come up with some *other* case why we should=20 care about RFC 1738. I certainly didn't mean to bring up browsers as the _only_ case of=20 possible interoperability issues, but when it comes to URL's it's=20 certainly the obvious one... So the only argument really is: - Nobody has pointed to *any* reason to follow 1738. - I have pointed to reasons *not* to do it. So if you want to follow the RFC, you'd better give a real reason. And = no,=20 the existence of an RFC, and the fact that people use the same name for= =20 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=20 *reason* already! Linus