Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: MTN-over-SSH's syntax

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 12:09:42AM -0700, Graydon Hoare wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> >Please send a patch! :-)  Probably the right syntax to use is
> >  ssh://address@hidden/~/path/relative/to/home
> >which is the syntax that the bzr folks converged on after a bunch of
> >fuss and bother.
> 
> Or ssh://address@hidden:home/relative/path, like scp uses. It's arguable 
> whether the port parameter is commonly used, and like scp, we *could* 
> add a --port option to the command.
> 
> Depends on whose fat-fingering you're trying to compensate for.

I've seen ssh on weird ports, and at least a non-numeric port is easy
to give a good error message for :-)

-- Nathaniel

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