Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 09/08/21 1:32 pm, Atharva Raykar wrote: >> Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On 07/08/21 12:46 pm, Atharva Raykar wrote: >>>>> [ ... ] >> Yikes! I meant 'host.xz:foo/.git'. That should give us 'foo'. Thanks for >> the correction. >> > > Interesting. I've usually seen host.xz:foo like syntax in HTTP URLs. For instance, > > http://host.xz:4000/bar.baz.git > > `git_url_basename` returns `bar.baz` for the above. > > 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? Junio already answered all of your questions, I'll just add that I lifted that example from the git-clone documentation [1] that uses the exact same basename extraction function. [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone#Documentation/git-clone.txt-ltdirectorygt
