"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:05:29PM +0100, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: >>We want to support ssh://bmc@2001:470:1f05:79::1/git/bmc/homedir.git/ >> because e.g. the Git shipped with Debian (1.7.10.4) (and a lot of >> other installations) supports it. > > I understand that this used to work, but it probably shouldn't have > ever been accepted. It's nonstandard, and if we accept it for ssh, > people will want it to work for https, and due to libcurl, it simply > won't. > > I prefer to see our past acceptance of this format as a bug. This is > the first that I've heard of anyone noticing this (since 2013), so it > can't be in common usage. > > If we accept it, we should explicitly document it as being deprecated > and note that it's inconsistent with the way everything else works. I was reviewing my Undecided pile today, and I think your objection makes sense. Either of you care to update documentation, please, before I drop this series and forget about it? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html