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Sure, maybe "ugly" is not the best term here. The fact is, the "short" URL you provided is still 74 characters long, while a line in a well-typeset paper is usu
by lou1306 4y ago
Sure, maybe "ugly" is not the best term here. The fact is, the "short" URL you provided is still 74 characters long, while a line in a well-typeset paper is usually 70-80 charecters long. Plus, username and repo in the example are pretty short ("torvalds"+"linux"=13 characters), which is not always the case. So these URLs are definitely hard to put on paper in an aesthetically pleasing way.
> There's all info in the url that you even can use in the future if GitHub ever goes away.
GitHub could maintain a .git_io file (or whatever) in the repository with the short->long URL mapping, for instance. So, the info would survive GitHub.