So what does "http://what.the.hell.org/some/file" mean?
Does it mean that you have to start a web browser? Should we make that be
git+http://what.the.hell.org/some/file
to make it clear that we're doing "git work" over the "http" protocol?
Pretty obviously not.
What does *that* mean? A protocol is a protocol. Your argument that
protocols are "different" is pointless. Some protocols are usable for git,
others aren't. OF COURSE different protocols are different. They are
different in different ways.
Git uses URL's to say how to access something, which includes a protocol,
an optional host, and a location within the host. It's quite obvious what
they mean, and it's *also* obvious that the meaning is git-specific.
Here's what it boils down to:
- do you think it is sensible to write
git clone git+file:///some/directory
git clone git+http://host/directory
git clone git+rsync://host/directory
when cloning from the local filesystem, over http, or over rsync
respectively? The first one, btw, actually uses the "git protocol". The
two others do not, but since a user shouldn't care, it would be really
stupid to try to make some internal implementation detail show up in
the URL scheme.
- if you really think that the above is sensible, then explain why.
- if you think that is TOTALLY IDIOTIC, then explain why "ssh://" is so
magically special that it would somehow make sense to say "git+" for
it?
As to your TLS example: if we were to do "git over TLS", it would make
perfect sense to use either "tls://" (although "gits://" might be more
natural, not because tls is wrong, but because people have gotten used to
"https://") if we were to have a "secure git" port. Or maybe we'd use the
same port number that we already have assigned for git, and just add some
"use TLS to authenticate/encrypt", and use "tls://" for that. It makes
perfect sense.
In short: you should just ask yourself: what is the most natural thing for
a *user* to type to "git clone". And no, the "git+" prefix never makes
sense.
Linus
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