Re: darcs.debian.org broken?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2015-07-19 14:24, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Concrete proposal:
> VCS-Git: alioth.debian.org:/git/pkg-haskell/DHG_packages.git#p/haskell-foo
> 
> Where the # separates the subpath from the uri. This way, you can
> actually paste the whole URL after "git clone", as # starts a bash
> comment, although that’s a minor point.
> 
> Greetings
> Joachim
> 

Sorry to ruin your proposal, but I do not think it will work:

 $ ls a#b
 ls: cannot access a#b: No such file or directory
 $ ls a #b
 ls: cannot access a: No such file or directory

I.e. I think you need a space before the # to trigger an in-line comment.

Thanks,
~Niels