Am 28.04.2010 02:00, schrieb Timothy Brownawell: > On 04/27/2010 06:54 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Timothy >> Brownawell<tbrow...@prjek.net> wrote: >>> >>> Is the occasional backslash really that bad? '%' conflicts with >>> urlencoding >>> (and '*' would only actually glob things if you have some really weirdly >>> named files), and '?' is probably necessary for file/ssh sync. >> >> I think it's more important to avoid characters that are meaningful in >> URLs (*especially* %) than to avoid characters that are meaningful to >> the shell. People expect to have to quote URLs. Also, I don't like / >> as a separator when it's not traversing a directory-like hierarchy. > > Huh, hadn't really considered the "overloading '/'" aspect. It does seem > slightly bad now that you mention it. > >> So, how about this? >> >> >> protocol://u...@server.host.name/path/to/database?include,include,-exclude,-exclude >> > > +1
+1/2 - this is similar to my last proposal (with ":" as separators, but I'd accept "," as well) - but the mandatory "?" still strikes me. Do you see any way to avoid "?" for the 90% use case (sync a single branch without wildcards from / to a remote database)? Thomas. -- GPG-Key 0x160D1092 | tommyd3...@jabber.ccc.de | http://thomaskeller.biz Please note that according to the EU law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange might be retained for a period of six months or longer: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?lang=en
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