SSH operations unfriendlyness

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-07-11 11:46, S?bastien Pierre <sebastien at xprima.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:32:55 +0300
> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> > It would be nice if the SSH URL syntax was more similar to the way SSH
> > treats remote path specifications, but I'm not sure if this is easy to
> > do (at least, not without making the exception too invasive for all URL
> > syntax parsing code), so I can live with `//' too :-)
> 
> I suppose that the SSH URL syntax is set this way to enable easy
> parsing with Python urlparse module... but this wouldn't be difficult to
> change this to "classic" SSH syntax.
> 
> Is there anybody that would prefer the classic SSH syntax instead of
> the current one ?

I definitely would.  Perhaps I didn't make it clear enough above, but I
would even prefer a syntax *exactly* like SSH, without URL-like form:

    % hg clone emacs [user:]host[:port]:[path]