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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
	Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Request for detailed documentation of git pack protocol
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:56:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0906032147330.31588@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906030250.01413.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>
>      HEXDIGIT = 0-9 / a-f
>
> Well, it should probably be spelled in full. Probably, because I have
> no experience with using ABNF... and didn't do my research :-)

The ABNF core rules include a definition for HEXDIG. See appendix B of
RFC 5234.

> (should HEXDIGIT use lowercase a-f, or can it use uppercase A-F?)

Double-quoted strings in ABNF are case-insensitive ASCII, so the HEXDIG
rule accepts both. You need to use %x61 if you want a but not A.

Tony.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-03 20:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-12 21:29 Request for detailed documentation of git pack protocol Jakub Narebski
2009-05-12 23:34 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-14  8:24   ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-14 14:57     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-14 15:02       ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-05-15 20:29         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-15 16:51       ` Clemens Buchacher
2009-05-14 18:13     ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-05-14 20:27       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-14 13:55   ` Scott Chacon
2009-05-14 14:44     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-05-14 15:01     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-05-15  0:58       ` A Large Angry SCM
2009-05-15 19:05         ` Ealdwulf Wuffinga
2009-06-02 21:39     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-02 23:27       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03  0:50         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03  1:29           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03  2:11             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-03  2:15               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03  9:21             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 14:48               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 15:07                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 15:39                   ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 15:50                     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 16:51                 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 16:56                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 20:19                     ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 20:24                       ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 22:04                         ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 22:04                           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 22:16                           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-03 22:46                             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-04  7:17                         ` Andreas Ericsson
2009-06-04  7:26                           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-06 16:33                     ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-06 17:24                       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-06 17:41                       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 21:38                   ` Tony Finch
2009-06-03 17:11                 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-06-03 19:05                 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-06-03  2:18           ` Robin H. Johnson
2009-06-03 10:47             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 14:17               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 20:56           ` Tony Finch [this message]
2009-06-03 21:20             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 21:53               ` Tony Finch
2009-06-04  8:45                 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-04 11:41                   ` Tony Finch
2009-06-04 18:41                   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-03 12:29       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-03 14:19         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-04 20:55       ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-04 21:57         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-05  0:45         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-05  7:24           ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-05  8:45             ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-06 21:38       ` Comments pack protocol description in "Git Community Book" (second round) Jakub Narebski
2009-06-06 21:58         ` Scott Chacon
2009-06-07  8:21           ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-07 20:13             ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-07 20:43           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-13  9:30           ` Comments pack protocol description in "RFC for the Git Packfile Protocol" (long) Jakub Narebski
2009-06-07 20:06         ` Comments pack protocol description in "Git Community Book" (second round) Shawn O. Pearce
2009-06-09  9:39           ` Jakub Narebski
2009-06-09 14:28             ` Shawn O. Pearce

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