Re: Make the git URL match usage

["John Kacur" <jkacur@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:47:20AM +0200, jkacur wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 2008-07-16 09:19, jkacur wrote:
>> >
>> >>Change the MAINTAINERS file so that the git URL reads EXACTLY the way someone
>> >>would use it.
>> >
>> >>-T:    git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> >>+T:    git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> >
>> > I would not use it that^ way.
>> >
>> > -git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> > +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> >
>>
>> Yikes! Good catch, thank you, I've respun the patch below.
>>
>> Subject: Make the git URL match the usage
>> Change the MAINTAINERS file so that the git URL reads EXACTLY the way someone
>> would use it. They should only have to copy and paste it and not guess how
>> to modify it. Secondly, drop the "git" type when the protocol is already git://
>>
>> Signed-off-by:John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com>
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6.26/MAINTAINERS
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.26.orig/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ linux-2.6.26/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ P:        Latchesar Ionkov
>>  M:   lucho@ionkov.net
>>  L:   v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
>>  W:   http://swik.net/v9fs
>> -T:   git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> +T:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>>  S:   Maintained
>
> This now looses information.  Although it is obvious that this particular
> example (after conversion) is a git repository over git protocol this falls
> down for other forms, for example a git repository exported over http://
> would appear as below:
>
>    T: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>
> which would be indistiguishable from a quilt series such as Greg KH's
> which, if I follow your scheme logically ie. convert it to the same form,
> would also be represented as below:
>
>    T: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/
>
> I think your conversion makes sense in that the URL part should be
> exactly what one would use with the tool but you still need the tool
> designator:
>
>    T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>    T: git http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>    T: guilt http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/
>
> -apw
>

Hi Andy, I only dropped the "git" designator in cases where the URL
protocol was git:// as in git://git.kernel.org
I believe there is no ambiguity there. I did not touch the designator
for something like quilt where http: is ambiguous.
I could leave the git designator in but I don't think it adds any
information, and it makes the line longer, and I'd rather avoid any
line wrap.