On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: > > Well, the confusion is that we refer to things that look like > "git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git" as if it were a URL. Sure, but "URL" in human-speak has nothing to do with an RFC. I dislike language-lawyerese. Why the hell do people think that human language should follow the RFC's? Git addresses look like URL's, and they act like URL's, but dammit, git isn't a web browser, and it's not interested in acting like one. And "standards" are only as good as they are useful. XML is a piece of crap despite being a standard because it makes no sense. Similarly, "URL quoting" is a piece of crap when _it_ makes no sense. Having a RFC or an ISO standard doesn't change anything, and doesn't imply that human communication (or indeed, even machine communication) should care. Linus - 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
