Re: [Monotone-devel] default branch for "monotone sync"

[Evan Martin]

On 2/25/07, Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sunday 25 February 2007, Evan Martin wrote:
> > Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding something?  (At least in web
> > browsers, file URIs start with file:// and then have a path, so it's
> > common to have three slashes at the beginning.)
>
> The scheme used by monotone is file:/path/to/db.mtn, see
> http://monotone.ca/docs/Other-Transports.html#Other-Transports .
>
> This in fact seems to be in accordance with RFC 2396.

This is interesting!  Does it mean that browsers have done it wrong?

(Relevant snippet of RFC:

     absoluteURI   = scheme ":" ( hier_part | opaque_part )

  URI that are hierarchical in nature use the slash "/" character for
  separating hierarchical components.  For some file systems, a "/"
  character (used to denote the hierarchical structure of a URI) is the
  delimiter used to construct a file name hierarchy, and thus the URI
  path will look similar to a file pathname.  This does NOT imply that
  the resource is a file or that the URI maps to an actual filesystem
  pathname.

     hier_part     = ( net_path | abs_path ) [ "?" query ]

     net_path      = "//" authority [ abs_path ]

     abs_path      = "/"  path_segments
)