Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > It is easy to strip the foo:: part of the url, assume that > the remote helper uses a RFC 3986 similar url syntax, so that we > can feed the reminding https://host/repo.git into the parser (see above). The thing that worries me is that foo:: syntax and external helper interface was invented by Daniel Barkalow primarily because he wanted to allow things that do *not* fit in that URL-like scheme, for example see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/125374/focus=125405 > If the remote helper doesn't do this, we can't guess anything, can we ? > So error out and tell the user seems the right thing to do. Yes. A blind guess that fails spectacularly is far worse than an outright rejection that is cautious. -- 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