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From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Allow SSH style URLS (with extra colon)
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:27:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100130172730.GA28865@Knoppix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyu3cyy3.fsf@jondo.cante.net>

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 06:57:56PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 
> According to git-clone[1] the SSH protocol is specied as:
> 
>     ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path
> 
> It woudl be nice if the ":" were allowed, so that the familiar SSH style
> patch notation could be used, making the spec:
> 
>     ssh://[user@]host.xz[:[port]]/path
> 
> An example:
> 
>     ssh://foo@examplecom:/path
>                         |
>                         Allowed
> 

I would use:

ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port][:]/path

Since empty port isn't allowed, this grammar is uniquely parseable,
and would allow specifying port too (if you don't need to specify
it, you could just use the scp syntax)[1].

[1] Of course 'ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/~/path' works too..

-Ilari

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-30 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-30 16:57 FEATURE REQUEST: Allow SSH style URLS (with extra colon) Jari Aalto
2010-01-30 17:27 ` Ilari Liusvaara [this message]
2010-01-30 22:21 ` Petr Baudis
2010-01-30 22:30   ` Junio C Hamano

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