Fwd: SSH operations unfriendlyness

[McClain Looney]

forwarding my $.02

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
> Date: July 11, 2006 2:37:40 PM CDT
> To: McClain Looney <m at loonsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: SSH operations unfriendlyness
>
> This is a much better alternative, but you probably meant to send it
> to the list, not to me :)
>
> And I'd rather have it as an option than replacing the URL syntax.
>
> On Tuesday, 11 July 2006 at 14:04, McClain Looney wrote:
>> On Tue, July 11, 2006 1:45 pm, Brendan Cully wrote:
>>
>>> This looks really unintuitive to me. It violates URL rules and  
>>> doesn't
>>> look like the rsh form either (which is of course insufficient on  
>>> its
>>> own and the reason for silly variables like RSYNC_RSH and CVS_RSH).
>>>
>>> In short, I don't think it's obvious to people who haven't read the
>>> directions, and it's disorienting to people familiar with the URL
>>> format.
>>>
>>> If anything, I'd be for more verbose documentation about the URL  
>>> form
>>> in the manual.
>>
>>
>> Yes, but I think people familiar with ssh/scp is the common  
>> denominator in
>> question.  IMHO, i'd rather see ssh:// dropped entirely in favor of
>> something along the lines of
>>
>> hg push --ssh -P 1024 user at host:path
>>
>>
>> with strictly matching scp path semantics
>>
>> -mml
>>