It took me a while of reading through the docs to figure out why trying to install a package via "https://github.com/user/pkg" failed for want of a MANIFEST file. I think the "do what I mean" installer should have autoconverted it to git:// , seeing as how github is already special-cased.
(Also my first try of installing via the git clone url https://github.com/user/pkg.git should ideally have been supported too, since that's what github encourages you to copy/paste as a reference) martin
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