On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Konrad Banachowicz <konradb3@gmail.com> wrote:
>> - the link to GitHub, on the ROS website
>>  "Source: git https://github.com/RCPRG-ros-pkg/orocos_controllers.git"
>>  is faulty: the last ".git" extension need not be there.
>
> These links are generated automatically by ROS wiki.

The URL it uses is the URL of the actual source repository, which has
a .git extension. If you go to [1], you will see that the .git URL is
the one listed.

The ROS wiki has no explicit knowledge of github URL practices. Other
Git repositories do not allow you to strip the .git suffix.

 - Ken

[1]: https://github.com/RCPRG-ros-pkg/orocos_controllers