Re: remote#branch

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Theodore Tso wrote:

Well, the confusion is that we refer to things that look like
"git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git" as if it were a URL.

Sure, but "URL" in human-speak has nothing to do with an RFC.

I dislike language-lawyerese. Why the hell do people think that human 
language should follow the RFC's?

Git addresses look like URL's, and they act like URL's, but dammit, git 
isn't a web browser, and it's not interested in acting like one. 

And "standards" are only as good as they are useful. XML is a piece of 
crap despite being a standard because it makes no sense. Similarly, "URL 
quoting" is a piece of crap when _it_ makes no sense. Having a RFC or an 
ISO standard doesn't change anything, and doesn't imply that human 
communication (or indeed, even machine communication) should care.

			Linus