1.0 approaches
Marcin Kasperski
Marcin.Kasperski at softax.com.pl
Fri Feb 8 09:14:27 CST 2008
>> Should a more standardized sintax be used? Something like:
>>
>> $ hg clone ssh://myhgserver:/var/lib/hg/myrepo
Indeed it would be more natural.
> Without the second slash, the path is relative to your homedir:
>
> $ hg clone ssh://myhgserver/hg/myrepo
ssh://myhgserver:hg/myrepo
could work too, and would be less likely to be confused with the
absolute path...
> The colon is already used to specify the port.
Checking whether the first character after colon is digit, or not,
is not that impossible...
> This is all moot anyway. It's rather late in the game to change them,
> especially for so little benefit.
The confusion is fairly frequent. And the change need not be invasive,
old convention may be still handled....
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