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		jrockway on May 24, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: URLs are the uniform way to locate resources I typically use "github:jrockway/foo.git", not "ssh://git@github.com/jrockway/foo.git". SSH invented its own format; it didn't reuse regular URLs. (Complicating matters, perhaps, is my .ssh/config file, which eliminates the need to specify the username and hostname in the host part.)

tedunangst on May 24, 2010 [–]

ssh didn't invent that format. It's the rcp format, which is older than URLs. It's hard to reuse something a decade before it exists.

jrockway on May 24, 2010 | [–]

Well, yeah. That's why it's wrong to criticize the article by saying that they made up the example. They did not.

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