linux-kernel - Re: Make the git URL match usage

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:34:23 +0200
From:	"John Kacur" <jkacur@...il.com>
To:	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ozas.de>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Make the git URL match usage

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:47:20AM +0200, jkacur wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 2008-07-16 09:19, jkacur wrote:
>> >
>> >>Change the MAINTAINERS file so that the git URL reads EXACTLY the way someone
>> >>would use it.
>> >
>> >>-T:    git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> >>+T:    git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> >
>> > I would not use it that^ way.
>> >
>> > -git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> > +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> >
>>
>> Yikes! Good catch, thank you, I've respun the patch below.
>>
>> Subject: Make the git URL match the usage
>> Change the MAINTAINERS file so that the git URL reads EXACTLY the way someone
>> would use it. They should only have to copy and paste it and not guess how
>> to modify it. Secondly, drop the "git" type when the protocol is already git://
>>
>> Signed-off-by:John Kacur <jkacur at gmail dot com>
>>
>> Index: linux-2.6.26/MAINTAINERS
>> ===================================================================
>> --- linux-2.6.26.orig/MAINTAINERS
>> +++ linux-2.6.26/MAINTAINERS
>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ P:        Latchesar Ionkov
>>  M:   lucho@...kov.net
>>  L:   v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
>>  W:   http://swik.net/v9fs
>> -T:   git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>> +T:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>>  S:   Maintained
>
> This now looses information.  Although it is obvious that this particular
> example (after conversion) is a git repository over git protocol this falls
> down for other forms, for example a git repository exported over http://
> would appear as below:
>
>    T: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>
> which would be indistiguishable from a quilt series such as Greg KH's
> which, if I follow your scheme logically ie. convert it to the same form,
> would also be represented as below:
>
>    T: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/
>
> I think your conversion makes sense in that the URL part should be
> exactly what one would use with the tool but you still need the tool
> designator:
>
>    T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>    T: git http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ericvh/v9fs.git
>    T: guilt http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/
>
> -apw
>

Hi Andy, I only dropped the "git" designator in cases where the URL
protocol was git:// as in git://git.kernel.org
I believe there is no ambiguity there. I did not touch the designator
for something like quilt where http: is ambiguous.
I could leave the git designator in but I don't think it adds any
information, and it makes the line longer, and I'd rather avoid any
line wrap.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/