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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow '+', '-' and '.' in remote helper names
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:48:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B83DCB1.5050905@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1266928428-19075-1-git-send-email-ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>

On 02/23/2010 01:33 PM, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> According to relevant RFCs, in addition to alphanumerics, the following
> characters are valid in URL scheme parts: '+', '-' and '.', but
> currently only alphanumerics are allowed in remote helper names.
>
> Allow those three characters in remote helper names (both 'foo://' and
> 'foo::' syntax).

I think '+' could be special-cased in that, for example, "svn+ssh://" 
should still invoke an hypothetic git-remote-svn helper.  There is no 
use yet for this feature, but I'm sure that foreign VCS helpers would 
use it.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-23 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-23 12:33 [PATCH] Allow '+', '-' and '.' in remote helper names Ilari Liusvaara
2010-02-23 13:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-23 13:07   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-02-23 13:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-23 13:19   ` Johannes Sixt
2010-02-23 13:32     ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-02-23 14:42       ` Johannes Schindelin
2010-02-23 13:48 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-02-23 17:12   ` Gabriel Filion

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