SSH operations unfriendlyness

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Mercurial has a sane ssh:// URL syntax. But when users familiar with ssh 
> "urls" see it they think it's just a ssh:// prefix to the syntax they 
> know. That's two very different expectations. One syntax can't satisfy all.
> 
> How about adding an "ssh:user at host:path" syntax for those who wants to a 
> syntax which isn't an url?

Perhaps. I might even consider/prefer user at host:path if we're going to
allow alternate syntaxes. But a future rsync extension will complicate
matters as it uses the same syntax. Ideally, protocols should register
a test function with the dispatcher so we don't have to put all the
ugly parsing bits in the core. This might even allow us to autodetect
static-http easily.

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