On 28/08/07, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > David Symonds wrote: > > On 28/08/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> And that is how it was designed to be. The URL's are for *git*, not for > >> other uses. If you want to do cross-SCM tools, you need to let them know > >> it's a "git" thing wheher it's browsable or not, so the argument that ssh > >> is something "different" is bogus crapola. > > > > That throws out the *U* of *URL*, which stands for Uniform. If you > > have to say whether a URL is a "git" URL or some other kind of URL, > > it's no longer a Uniform Resource Locator. > > > > No it doesn't. It's no less uniform just because not every program in the > world understands what to do with a particular URL. It's still uniform > in that it follows the tried and tested scheme of "protocol://host/path". > The fact that firefox, opera, konqueror and IE doesn't know what to do > with it means absolutely nothing. What I then went on to say was that *assuming* your different programs understand the scheme, the URL should be the same for them all. *That* is the uniformity that should be maintained, so that you don't use git://path/to/something for git, and file://path/to/something for everything else. Dave. - 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
