Subject: Re: remote#branch

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:49:16 +0100

Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:12:37AM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
>>> that they are machine parseable. If you wanted to write a tool to pick
>>> the URLs out of this email and clone them as git repos, then how do you
>>> find the end of:
>>> 
>>>   http://host/git repo with spaces in the path
>>
>> You use
>> 
>>   'http://host/git repo with spaces in the path'
> 
> ...which is a quoting mechanism, and it's not even one commonly used in
> emails (i.e., people have written "parse a URL from this text" scripts
> for RFC-encoded URLs, but _not_ for shell quoting).

I don't think RFC-encoding is quoting mechanism used in emails, either.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland