Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 You just write <URL:http://host/git repo with spaces in the path> and have a good chance it will work. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum - 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
