Thanks for your suggestion Bastien, but unfortunately it does not directly
map to the shortcut that I implemented in my package. In my *old* syntax:

    git:repo::file.txt

file.txt is a search pattern for a *file* with in the symbolic repo "repo"
which maps to a real repo through the hash variable my-org-repos. The whole
idea was that I wanted to be able to use the symbolic name as a shortcut.
In addition file.txt is not the path of a file in the repo, but a search
pattern for a file in the repo. In case of duplicates the user is prompted
to interactively resolve the file. In addition I would also like to add a
search pattern for a string in the file.

My problem is how to merge this syntax with the org-git-link.el which uses
the syntax

git:/home/user/repo/data/results.png::nobelprize

where /home/.../results.png is the name of the path to a file and
nobelprize is the name of a tag.

Both my linking and the org-git-linking are two different equally valid use
cases. My problem is how to merge both these use cases under a single
syntax.

Regards,
Dov

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 17:00, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Dov,
>
> Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware of that package. I see that I
> > have a conflict in syntax as I used double colon for indicating the
> > git repo while org-git-link.el used double colon for search pattern.
>
> The double colon is standard in Org for indicating the search pattern,
> please use it this way too.
>
> > Thus to join the packages I need to change the syntax. Which of the
> > following would make more sense:
> >
> >    git:@repo:file-in-repo::pattern-in-file
> >    git://repo/file-in-repo::pattern-in-file
> >
> > or perhaps some other syntax? Suggestions?
>
> git:[user@?][repo-server]:[git-repo-itself]::[search-pattern]
>
> When user is set, the repo-server URL won't have a protocol
> (git will be used by default as a protocol.)
>
> When user is not set, the repo-server may contain git:// or
> http:// as the protocol.
>
> But I didn't test your packing, so I'm maybe shooting in the
> dark for this syntax suggestion.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>