On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:41:08AM -0600, Derek Scherger wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Thomas Keller <m...@thomaskeller.biz> wrote: > > > > > +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)? > > > > I haven't followed this thread terribly carefully so this may be a rehash of > something earlier (apologies in advance if it is). Branches can be > considered "things that exist within a database" so the idea of a hierarchy > from database to branch is somewhat reasonable. Following this, a url like > > mtn://host/database/branch > > might be workable and can avoid the need for a ? separator. Things might get > awkward when you try and extend this to include more than one branch or > several branch patterns though.
There's a syntactic ambiguity here in knowing where the database name (which might contain slashes) ends and the branch name starts. On a system where files and directories can't have the same names, it can be resolved semantically. But on systems like, say. DEC VMS, there might be a problem. Does the syntax here actually need to be system-independent? I admit, it would be nice... . -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
