Comment 7 for bug 121195

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 121195] Re: Change "bzr+ssh://" URLs to "ssh://"

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:08 +0000, Steve Alexander wrote:
> The repetition of 'bzr' in the command makes for a poor UI:
>
> bzr branch bzr+ssh://whatever
>
> I disagree with Robert about an expectation that ssh: would be for
> terminal emulation. That's like saying that you expect http: to be only
> for web pages. Yet, we use http: URLs for web pages, and also for bzr
> data. We don't say bzr+http.

In fact we have 'bzr+http' to indicate that you want to use the smart
server tunnelled over http. And when we say 'http' we give up the
ability for url handlers to hand off to bzr automatically, which is IMO
a shame - but a reasonable tradeoff when we are just using http.

-Rob
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