Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> 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.
Or use tinyurl links: http://tinyurl.com/sy27w
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Received on Mon May 15 17:03:23 2006