Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax

[Ian Jackson]

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax"):
> Yeah, this is a pretty good point, and it decreases the complexity of the
> syntax a fair bit.  Ian, what do you think about making the extensibility
> model for any future thing be add another field?

I found myself trying to implement what I had suggested earlier and
ran up against the question of what to do about [ ] in optional
values.

I decided to use this regexp
+	$vcsgiturl =~ s/\s+\[[^][]*\]//g;
(I need to strip the information, not use it.)  That hopes paths do
not contain [ ] but permits (and eats) spaces inside the [ ].

I'm inclined to think that these questions show that my original
proposal was not brilliant and that your idea is better.

HTH.

Ian.

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