Re: git://github.com/some/thing.git/?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 08:46:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I just noticed that
> 
> 	git ls-remote git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git/
> 
> works, but neither of the following does:
> 
> 	git ls-remote git://git://github.com/gitster/git.git/
> 	git ls-remote git://git://github.com/gitster/git/
> 
> It is just a minor irritation but it would be really nice if you can fix
> it (please don't spend too much time on it if it is too involved, though).

Of course they don't work, they are malformed. :)

It took me a minute to figure it out, but I assume the interesting part
is the trailing slash?

Interestingly, this does work for http URLs, because we do some
normalization on the client side (and then append things like
"info/refs"). I wonder if we should do similar normalization for other
protocols.

Even with that, though, I think it would be good for the server to be
liberal in what it accepts.

-Peff