Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 10/10] git fetch: support host:/~repo

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:40:26 -0800

Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Since commit faea9ccb URLs host:~repo or ssh://host:/~repo
> reach the home directory.
> In 356bece0 support for [] was introduced, and as a side
> effect, [host]:/~repo was the same as [host]:~repo.
> The side effect was removed in c01049ae, "connect.c: Corner case for IPv6".
>
> Re-reading the documentation (in urls.txt) we find that
> "ssh://host:/~repo",
> "host:/~repo" or
> "host:~repo"
> specifiy the repository "repo" in the home directory at "host".
>
> So make the handling of "host:/~repo" (or "[host]:/~repo") a feature,
> and revert the possible regression introduced in c01049ae.

Isn't c01049ae a private copy in your repository, a part of this
series?  Perhaps the series needs to be (re)structured to avoid
introducing a "possible regression" in the first place?

Confused...

> ---
>  connect.c             |  3 +--
>  t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh |  4 ++--
>  t/t5601-clone.sh      | 12 ++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
> index 95568ac..2cad296 100644
> --- a/connect.c
> +++ b/connect.c
> @@ -625,8 +625,7 @@ static enum protocol parse_connect_url(const char *url_orig, char **ret_host,
>  	end = path; /* Need to \0 terminate host here */
>  	if (separator == ':')
>  		path++; /* path starts after ':' */
> -	if ((protocol == PROTO_GIT) ||
> -			(protocol == PROTO_SSH && separator == '/')) {
> +	if (protocol == PROTO_GIT || protocol == PROTO_SSH) {
>  		if (path[1] == '~')
>  			path++;
>  	}
> diff --git a/t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh b/t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh
> index 69a2110..7d9f18c 100755
> --- a/t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh
> +++ b/t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh
> @@ -601,9 +601,9 @@ do
>  		test_expect_success "fetch-pack --diag-url $h:$r" '
>  			check_prot_path $h:$r $p "$r"
>  		'
> -		# No "/~" -> "~" conversion
> +		# Do the "/~" -> "~" conversion
>  		test_expect_success "fetch-pack --diag-url $h:/~$r" '
> -			check_prot_host_path $h:/~$r $p "$h" "/~$r"
> +			check_prot_host_path $h:/~$r $p "$h" "~$r"
>  		'
>  	done
>  done
> diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
> index bd1bfd3..62fbd7e 100755
> --- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
> +++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
> @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ test_expect_success MINGW 'clone c:temp is dos drive' '
>  '
>  
>  #ip v4
> -for repo in rep rep/home/project /~proj 123
> +for repo in rep rep/home/project 123
>  do
>  	test_expect_success "clone host:$repo" '
>  		test_clone_url host:$repo host $repo
> @@ -356,12 +356,20 @@ do
>  done
>  
>  #ipv6
> -for repo in rep rep/home/project 123 /~proj
> +for repo in rep rep/home/project 123
>  do
>  	test_expect_success "clone [::1]:$repo" '
>  		test_clone_url [::1]:$repo ::1 $repo
>  	'
>  done
> +#home directory
> +test_expect_success "clone host:/~repo" '
> +	test_clone_url host:/~repo host "~repo"
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success "clone [::1]:/~repo" '
> +	test_clone_url [::1]:/~repo ::1 "~repo"
> +'
>  
>  # Corner cases
>  for url in foo/bar:baz [foo]bar/baz:qux [foo/bar]:baz