[PATCH] "Classic" SSH scheme

[Zbynek Winkler]

> > I realize I'm joining the discussion a bit late (have been without
> > email for a few days), but I've introduced about 4 or 5 users to hg,
> > separately, and so far all but one has been very confused by the ssh
> > syntax and try by default to use something like the syntax suggested
> > by Sebastien.  Perhaps this is because these people are used to SVN,
> > which uses Sebastien's syntax (approximately).
>
> I don't know svn very well, so here is an example I found in the svnbook:
>   svn list svn+ssh://host.example.com/repos/project
> Well, this seems to be exactly identic to the mercurial syntax, except
> that they use svn+ssh:// instead of ssh://.
> So what is confusing svn users exactly ??


May it be that the "repos/project" is an absolute path? To improve usability
and be compatible with svn (and IMO also with general http) just make the
path absolute by default and require "~/" to specify the relative path (I
just tried svn and I haven't found a way to specify a relative path).

Zbynek

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