David Symonds wrote:
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> On 28/08/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> And that is how it was designed to be. The URL's are for *git*, not for
>> other uses. If you want to do cross-SCM tools, you need to let them know
>> it's a "git" thing wheher it's browsable or not, so the argument that ssh
>> is something "different" is bogus crapola.
> 
> That throws out the *U* of *URL*, which stands for Uniform. If you
> have to say whether a URL is a "git" URL or some other kind of URL,
> it's no longer a Uniform Resource Locator.
> 

No it doesn't. It's no less uniform just because not every program in the
world understands what to do with a particular URL. It's still uniform
in that it follows the tried and tested scheme of "protocol://host/path".
The fact that firefox, opera, konqueror and IE doesn't know what to do
with it means absolutely nothing.

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