Re: [RFC PATCH] Write new giturl(7) manpage

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:48:18AM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

quoted

 Why doesn't urls.txt document <transport>::<address> syntax? Should I
 fix this?

One useful way of answering questions like this is to find the commits 
that added the <transport>::<address> syntax (probably easiest with git 
blame), and at the commits that touched urls.txt (probably with git log), 
and see if the reading the messages makes it obvious. I'd guess (without 
actually looking myself) that it was just overlooked.

I think the following commit added that syntax:

commit 87422439d100f020cadb63b5da8495e5fbfb8fa3
Author: Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Nov 18 02:42:26 2009 +0100

    Allow specifying the remote helper in the url
    
    The common case for remote helpers will be to import some repository
    which can be specified by a single URL.  Support this use case by
    allowing users to say:
    
        git clone hg::https://soc.googlecode.com/hg/ soc
    
    Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Sverre Rabbelier [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]

AFAICT, urls.txt hasn't been touched since this commit.

-Ilari