Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Please document Haskell team style Vcs-Git sytax"):
> Yeah, this is a pretty good point, and it decreases the complexity of the
> syntax a fair bit. Ian, what do you think about making the extensibility
> model for any future thing be add another field?
I found myself trying to implement what I had suggested earlier and
ran up against the question of what to do about [ ] in optional
values.
I decided to use this regexp
+ $vcsgiturl =~ s/\s+\[[^][]*\]//g;
(I need to strip the information, not use it.) That hopes paths do
not contain [ ] but permits (and eats) spaces inside the [ ].
I'm inclined to think that these questions show that my original
proposal was not brilliant and that your idea is better.
HTH.
Ian.
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