Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I wonder what real-world URL has a syntax like 'host.xz:foo/.git' for which > 'foo' would be an appropriate basename to return. Does a real-world URL of > this form exist? Or is this just cooked up to demonstrate the basename that > would be returned for a hypothetical URL like this? It is not really a URL, but historically we've called them "scp-style URL". scp of course copied the syntax from "rcp" where <hostname> and <pathname> are separated by a colon ':' named a file or a directory at the named path on the named host.
