On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:09:01AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff King wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:49:16AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > >>>...which is a quoting mechanism, and it's not even one commonly used in > >>>emails (i.e., people have written "parse a URL from this text" scripts > >>>for RFC-encoded URLs, but _not_ for shell quoting). > >>I don't think RFC-encoding is quoting mechanism used in emails, either. > > > >That's funny, because I have hundreds of mails where that is the case, > >and none where people used shell-quoting. Most URLs don't _need_ any > >encoding, so we don't notice either way. But are you honestly telling me > >that if you needed to communicate a URL with a space via email, you > >would write: > > > > 'http://foo.tld/url with a space' > > > >rather than: > > > > http://foo.tld/url+with+a+space > > > >? > > > > I think 99% of all URL's communicated via email are copy-pasted from a > webbrowsers location bar. I believe most git urls (or grls, or whatever > you wanna call them) communicated via email are copy-pasted from ones > config, or written out manually. Or copied from gitweb. Mike - 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
