Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: netsync connection info cleanup

[Timothy Brownawell]

On 04/27/2010 06:54 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Timothy Brownawell<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Is the occasional backslash really that bad? '%' conflicts with urlencoding
> > (and '*' would only actually glob things if you have some really weirdly
> > named files), and '?' is probably necessary for file/ssh sync.
>
> I think it's more important to avoid characters that are meaningful in
> URLs (*especially* %) than to avoid characters that are meaningful to
> the shell.  People expect to have to quote URLs.  Also, I don't like /
> as a separator when it's not traversing a directory-like hierarchy.

Huh, hadn't really considered the "overloading '/'" aspect. It does seem 
slightly bad now that you mention it.

> So, how about this?
>
>    protocol://address@hidden/path/to/database?include,include,-exclude,-exclude

+1

> should work equally well for mtn (with usher), ssh, and file.  Without
> usher, you just leave out the /path part.
>
> (Also, ~ in the path part should absolutely have the 'go to home
> directory' semantic.)
>
> zw


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Timothy

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