Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > So I think one reasonable path would be: > > 1. Do not treat "host:path" as ssh if "host" has a slash, which should > not regress anybody. It does not allow unadorned relative paths > with colons, but it lets you use absolute paths or "./" to > disambiguate. > > 2. Teach git-clone to ask the transport code to parse the source repo > spec, and decide from that whether it is local or not. That would > harmonize the implementations and avoid errors when you _did_ mean > to use ssh, but "host:path" happens to exist in your filesystem. I > also would not be surprised if there are problems with > URL-encoding, but maybe clone handles that properly (I didn't > check). > > And the "host contains slash" rule is pretty easy to explain in the > documentation, which is good.
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