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Re: URL in e-mail (was: Re: way to manage external code)

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_comcast.net>
Date: 2006-05-15 16:17:14 CEST

Johan Appelgren wrote:
> On 5/15/06, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> On May 15, 2006, at 09:18, Johan Appelgren wrote:
>>>
>>>>> There's a 3rd party code/headers/libraries tree that my project
>>>>> uses.
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>>> What's the correct way of doing it?
>>>>
>>>> Have you read about vendor branches in the subversion book?
>>>>
>>>> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-
>>>> book.html#svn.advanced.vendorbr>
>>
>> The above URL is badly broken: Try this one:
>>
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html
>
> Sorry for being a little bit off topic, but in what way was the URL
> broken? How should one write URLs in e-mail?

It depends on the mail tool: many mail composers do really unfortunate
things to URL's, like breaking them at the "-" inappropriately.. In your
case, the URL was broken as follows:

>>>> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-
>>>> book.html#svn.advanced.vendorbr>

That, of course, is useless. You need to cut and paste the bits together to
get something like:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.vendorbr

Some mail clients do well with the <URL> syntax to display clickable URL's,
but for flat text mailing lists like this one, I find that it's just asking
for brokenness with many mail clients.

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