On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:38:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So if you want to follow the RFC, you'd better give a real reason. And no, > the existence of an RFC, and the fact that people use the same name for > things that superficially _look_ the same is not a reason in itself. > > So hands up, people. Anybody who asked for RFC quoting. Give a damn > *reason* already! I didn't ask for RFC quoting, but a nice side effect of URL syntax is that they are machine parseable. If you wanted to write a tool to pick the URLs out of this email and clone them as git repos, then how do you find the end of: http://host/git repo with spaces in the path compared to: http://host/git+repo+with+spaces+in+the+path I don't know if that's worth changing anything in git (in fact, I'm not even clear on _what_ people want to change; the point of this discussion seems to be to argue about terminology). But you did ask for any reason for quoting URLs. -Peff - 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
