Re: git://github.com/some/thing.git/?

Jeff King wrote:

For some definition of "we"; AFAICT, github has never allowed this, and
this is the first complaint

I complained and got a dismissive response about two years ago. ;-)  I
am not sure if bugs from back then are tracked any more.  The URL in
my records is [1].

[...]

However, it turned out to be a one-line patch. I've pushed it out for
review by other GitHubbers.

Hoorah!  Thanks for taking care of it.

Sincerely,
Jonathan

[1] http://support.github.com/discussions/repos/3046-cannot-access-repository-using-url-with-trailing-slash-is-not-a-valid-repository-name