On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 08:29:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sure, an extensible syntax sounds great. The problem is that we kind of > had one (Vcs-Git was a subset of a git checkout command line, which > allowed support of the -b option), but this (if I understand it correctly) > is a whole new type of thing that I don't think corresponds to any git > command-line flags. > > It's kind of hard to design an extensible format with any well-defined > meaning if we don't know what sorts of things people will want to add via > extensions.... > > What we would ideally have is a git URL that allows representing the > branch and path within the repository, along with the transport. Surely > there must be prior work out there -- has anyone defined such a thing > already? I don't remember where this was discussed (quite in length actually), probably debina-qa@ or debian-devel@. It was then implemented in vcswatch (https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch) and elsewhere. I'm positive a result of that discussion made clear there was no such URI format available already. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `-
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