Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 08:29:16PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sure, an extensible syntax sounds great.  The problem is that we kind of
> had one (Vcs-Git was a subset of a git checkout command line, which
> allowed support of the -b option), but this (if I understand it correctly)
> is a whole new type of thing that I don't think corresponds to any git
> command-line flags.
> 
> It's kind of hard to design an extensible format with any well-defined
> meaning if we don't know what sorts of things people will want to add via
> extensions....
> 
> What we would ideally have is a git URL that allows representing the
> branch and path within the repository, along with the transport.  Surely
> there must be prior work out there -- has anyone defined such a thing
> already?

I don't remember where this was discussed (quite in length actually),
probably debina-qa@ or debian-devel at .  It was then implemented in
vcswatch (https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch) and elsewhere.
I'm positive a result of that discussion made clear there was no such
URI format available already.

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