[racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 8 15:58:02 EST 2012

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 30 minutes ago, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>> > IIUC, the branch in the path is required, is that the case?  If
>> > so, then I think that it should really work without it too, to get
>> > the simple https://github.com/user/repo syntax.
>>
>> Yes it is required. We could do that, right now there's not
>> assumptions like this (i.e. you always want master) anywhere else in
>> the system so I didn't do it.
>
> I think that such assumptions are very common, especially in the
> github world.  Since it's still just a URL thing and it's easy to add,
> I think that GH users would expect it to work.

I'll enable it on the PNS so that it will automatically add the master
branch and when you submit and http github address it will ask if you
mean github://

Jay

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