Jeff King wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:28:36AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Because we don't care! This is *exactly* why I brought up the whole
discussion about "interoperability with a web browser", and pointed out
that there is no such thing *anyway*, since a GIT URL is generally not
suitable for browsing _regardless_ of any encoding issues!
So it doesn't matter one whit if a mail client recognizes GIT URL's or
not! Because the mail client cannot do the right thing with them anyway,
and would generally think that it's something that it should highlight so
that you can browse it!
Two points:
1. Just because _your_ mail client can't do anything useful with git
URLs^H^H^H^H repo specifications, doesn't mean that others can't.
2. You are conflating syntax and semantics. Think of the task I
mentioned as two subtasks: pulling the location specifier from the
email, and then doing something useful with it (in this case,
git-cloning it it). The first subtask depends _only_ on a parseable
syntax. The user can provide the context necessary for accomplishing
the second subtask.
For example, consider a terminal that, upon pressing some keyboard
combination, will highlight the first URL-ish looking blob on the
screen, prompt you for a command, and then execute '$command $url'. The
terminal doesn't have to know the semantics of the blob, but it has to
know the syntax. The user provides the semantics.
And yes, such a terminal exists, and I'm using it right now.
Great. Now you just need a git-repo with an url that needs quoting, and
this discussion could at least potentially solve a real problem for someone.
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