Re: [PATCH] git-remote: support remotes with a dot in the name

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> On the other hand, I've been tracking "wireless-2.6" for months without even
> realizing that the name could be a problem.

Ah, sorry.  You are absolutely right.  Using wireless-2.6 to
name wireless-2.6 repository (or linux-2.6 to name linux-2.6
repository) makes perfect sense.

>> I do not strongly oppose to allowing it now, but I suspect this
>> is probably less impact:
>>
>> 	if (/^remote\.(\S+?)\.([^.\s]+)\s+(.*)$/) {
>>         	...
>> 	}
>>
>> With this, we disallow whitespaces in remote names, but we leave
>> the door open for supporting variables other than fetch and url
>> by accepting the third token that matches any sequence of
>> non-dot, non-whitespace letters.
>
> It would be great as long as we don't use names with more than
> one dot after the remote name
> (e.g. remote.wireless-2.6.url.push),...

Do you mean:

	[remote "wireless-2.6.url"]
		url = wire.less:/repo/sito/ry.git
        	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/wireless-2.6.url/*

If so I think my replacement would match it.  It will be
returned from "git config --get-regexp '^remote\.'"  like this:

remote.wireless-2.6.url.url wire.less:/repo/sito/ry.git
remote.wireless-2.6.url.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/wireless-2.6.url/*

and in:

 	/^remote\.(\S+?)\.([^.\s]+)\s+(.*)$/

$1 would match shortest non-whitespace sequence after "remote.",
$2 would match longuest non-dot, non-whitespace sequence before
a sequence of whitespaces, and
$3 would match everything after that sequence of whitespaces.

So, $1 = "wireless-2.6.url", $2 = "url", $3 = "wire.less:/repo/sito/ry.git"
or $1 = "wireless-2.6.url", $2 = "fetch", $3 = "+refs/heads/...."

But my Perl is rusty, so please double check it.