David Symonds wrote:
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.
Well, if all URL's were the same we wouldn't need them in the first
place. The only "same" about them is the notation we use to describe
what's the protocol, host and path part, and that *is* the same.
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