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

[Thomas Keller]

Am 28.04.2010 07:25, schrieb Derek Scherger:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Zack Weinberg <address@hidden> 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.
>>
> 
> Agreed, on all counts.
> 
> 
>> So, how about this?
>>
>>  protocol://
>> address@hidden/path/to/database?include,include,-exclude,-exclude
>>
>> should work equally well for mtn (with usher), ssh, and file.  Without
>> usher, you just leave out the /path part.
>>
> 
> +1 (nice and simple)

Ok, I see I get overruled here ;)

>> (Also, ~ in the path part should absolutely have the 'go to home
>> directory' semantic.)
>>
> 
> Agreed here too.
> 
> This proposal doesn't change the meaning of any URL-special characters which
> I think is important. Overloading % + ? = or & would be bad as people
> generally know what they mean in the context of a URL. We could consider
> using the fragment character # in place of the query string separator
> character ? but that's probably splitting hairs. This is a shell-special
> character too (for comments) but it doesn't seem to apply if there's
> non-whitespace immediately preceding it.

I think I have to find another shell...

$ echo mtn://foo.com#foo
zsh: no matches found: mtn://foo.com#foo

So if its only zsh and whatever I try here needs escaping anyways, we
can simply stick to the more common "?" then...

Thomas.

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