Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#932696: Please document Haskell team style
Vcs-Git sytax [and 1 more messages]"):
> So, maybe something like:
>
> <url> -b <branch> [<path>; <key>=<value> ...]
>
> to build off of what we already have? (With, obviously, a bunch of that
> syntax marked as optional.) If we ban "=" in <path>, we can allow for
> <path> to be optional but some other key/value pair to be provided.
SGTM. We can specify that [ ] contains optional information. I guess
that is why that syntax was chosen...
Then critical information which *should* cause an old parser to fail
can also be added.
So the overall syntax is roughly
<url> [ " -b " <branch> ] [ " " <other critial information> ]
[ " [" ( <path> | <key> "=" <value> "; " )* "]" ]
We can say that it's <key> if it has "=" before any "/". Then paths
containing = are expressable as ./foo=bar
Ian.
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