Re: [PATCH] Allow '+', '-' and '.' in remote helper names

Paolo Bonzini wrote:

On 02/23/2010 01:33 PM, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:

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According to relevant RFCs, in addition to alphanumerics, the following
characters are valid in URL scheme parts: '+', '-' and '.', but
currently only alphanumerics are allowed in remote helper names.

Allow those three characters in remote helper names (both 'foo://' and
'foo::' syntax).

I think '+' could be special-cased in that, for example, "svn+ssh://"
should still invoke an hypothetic git-remote-svn helper.  There is no
use yet for this feature, but I'm sure that foreign VCS helpers would
use it.

Special-casing the + could be useful to simplify support for
"svn::ssh://"-style addresses as both could receive the same URL
("ssh://..").

It would also mean less clutter in the script directory. Instead of
having two scripts, one to catch "helper://.." remote URLs and another
to catch "helper+ssh://.." URLs, the same script would differentiate
between used protocols.

-- 
Gabriel Filion