Hello I wonder about usability of following tool. Quick-start: giturl https://github.com/zdharma/giturl -r devel -p lib/coding_functions.cpp
Protocol: https Site: github.com Repo: zdharma/giturl Revision: devel File: lib/coding_functions.cpp gitu://ŬṽǚǫoŒẗ6ẏȅcЭÑẩőn4ầŘїệαЃȣϟṈӛŀї It does Huffman encoding and base-1024 encoding to pack given data into single URL. The Unicode characters selected for base-1024 encoding are letters, not symbols, so double-clicking in e.g. web browser selects the whole code, making it easy to grab a repository data. Decoding: giturl -qd ŬṽǚǫoŒẗ6ẏȅcЭÑẩőn4ầŘїệαЃȣϟṈӛŀї https://github.com/zdharma/giturl / rev:devel / file:lib/coding_functions.cpp I can also encode commits relative to given revision, e.g. bits 10011 are commits 1, 4, 5. Easy to add to the g-code. Selecting 10th commit is only 1 character in base-1024. However I wonder if this has any uses. Could be patches sent this way? Having refs/patches/<name>, encoding <name> in URL, sending it instead of inlining/attaching a diff, selecting e.g. 3 commits via the bit-mask mentioned. That said, it's more about easy-grab of repository data and storage in well-defined, consistent format, not in language "the branch is ..., commit a7a35cb". Does this make sense? There are 2 implementations, in Zsh (uses Zshell like e.g. Ruby, not interactively) and C++11 (mostly because of std::regex): https://github.com/zdharma/giturl https://github.com/zdharma/cgiturl -- Sebastian Gniazdowski psprint /at/ zdharma.org
