Re: clone from url with email address as username?(escaping @ symbol)

[Ben Bennett <benbennett@gmail.com>]

I am attempting to do a https clone. The username is an email address
but when I do a clone here is what happens.

Here is what I get , I might be messing up the clone command . btw ,
if i leave switch it to ssh , yes it does resolve the url correctly.

git clone https://benjamin.j.bennett@fooserver.com@fooserver.com/git_repos/main-code.git/
test
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/benjamin/planning_workspace/test/.git/
Password:
error: Couldn't resolve host 'fooserver.com@fooserver.com' while
accessing https://benjamin.j.bennett@fooserver.com@myfooserver.com/git_repos/main-code.git//info/refs

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 16:30, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> The question is which @ is the login/server separator, and which one
>> is included in the login. A quick test with
>
> I think it only makes sense that this would work, since any @ can
> never be part of the server name (since it's not an allowed
> character), so I'm still curious why Ben wants to escape his @.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Sverre Rabbelier
>