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From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regarding the depreciation of ssh+git/git+ssh protocols
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 14:03:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8fed0d1f-a2bd-131c-5552-e95216b43474@archlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFCckC8fHmEyOAnp@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>


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On 3/16/21 7:54 AM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2021-03-16 at 04:38:08, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>> Why does this even matter? Again, the point here is the assertion by
>> Drew that, for the purpose of listing a manifest of remotely fetchable
>> resources, he sees a benefit to having some standard format for the URI
>> itself, describing how it's intended to be fetched.
>>
>> - ftp:// -> use the `ftp` tool
>> - scp:// -> use the `scp` tool
>> - http:// -> use the `wget` tool
>> - git+http:// -> use the `git` tool
>>
>> But instead of needing every program with a git integration to
>> reimplement "recognize git+http and do substring prefix removal before
>> passing to git", the suggestion is for git to do this.
> 
> I believe this construct is nonstandard.  It is better to use standard
> URL syntax when possible because it makes it much, much easier for
> people to use standard tooling to parse and handle URLs.  Such tooling
> may have special cases for the HTTP syntax that it doesn't use in MAILTO
> syntax, so it's important to pick something that works automatically.
> 
> It's difficult enough to handle parsing of SSH specifications and
> distinguish them uniformly from Windows paths (think of an alias named
> "c"), so I'd prefer we didn't add additional complexity to handle this
> case.
> 
> Lest you think that only Git has to handle parsing these, the Git LFS
> project (and every other implementation compatible with Git) has to
> handle parsing them as well (and related things like url.*.insteadOf),
> and providing bug-for-bug compatible behavior is generally a hassle.
> We've run into numerous problems where things aren't exactly the same,
> and making things more complex by adding an esoteric syntax that few
> users are likely to use isn't helping.  Despite the fact that ssh+git is
> specified as deprecated, we had people expect it to magically work and
> had to support it in Git LFS.
> 
> So I'm very much opposed to adding, expanding, or giving any sort of
> official blessing to this syntax, especially when there are perfectly
> valid and equivalent schemes that are already blessed and registered
> with IANA.

Suddenly I'm hearing a much more reasonable response than "but it
doesn't give me content-type so I can't know which media application is
capable of opening it".

(I'm not especially attached to the proposal. I'm a maintainer for one
of these package managers that currently special-case git+https?:// and
rewrite the url that git sees, which has worked adequately for a long
time. However, I figured if you want to reject this proposal, reject it
for a good reason...)

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Arch Linux Bug Wrangler and Trusted User


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-16 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-15 16:27 Regarding the depreciation of ssh+git/git+ssh protocols Drew DeVault
2021-03-15 17:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-15 18:14   ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-15 22:01     ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-16  0:52       ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-16  1:02         ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-16  1:05           ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-16 21:23             ` Jeff King
2021-03-17 14:49               ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-18 21:30               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-18 21:53                 ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-16  4:38           ` Eli Schwartz
2021-03-16 11:54             ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-16 14:21               ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-16 21:28                 ` Jeff King
2021-03-17 14:50                   ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-17  0:45                 ` Jakub Narębski
2021-03-17 14:53                   ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-17 22:06                 ` brian m. carlson
2021-03-18 12:53                   ` Drew DeVault
2021-03-16 18:03               ` Eli Schwartz [this message]
2021-03-17 22:15                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2021-03-31  4:23                   ` Eli Schwartz
2021-04-07 13:46                   ` Mark Lodato
2021-04-07 19:46                     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-04-13  8:52                       ` Kerry, Richard
2021-03-16  0:54       ` Drew DeVault
2023-10-13 20:49 David Rogers

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