Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: Allow SSH style URLS (with extra colon)

From: Petr Baudis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:21:57 +0100

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

But that's not an URL anymore. If you want to use ssh pathspec, write it
as a pathspec, not an URL. Just [email-masked]:/path works fine. ;-)

				Petr "Pasky" Baudis