Support the scheme “git”?

[tripu]

@dontcallmedom suggested during yesterday's project review (“Using GitHub for W3C Specifications”) that

echidna should be improved to retrieve content via git rather than just http.

[plehegar]

would this help using other branches than gh-pages?

[tripu]

I think that's the idea, @plehegar: not having to publish using gh-pages, using different branches, tags or commits… much like when we define Git npm dependencies.

[tripu]

The package I started looking at, nodegit, does not support Node.js 10 (nodegit/nodegit#1490), so some builds error, and it may be a blocker going forward.

Possible alternatives may be git or simple-git, but I haven't looked into those.

I'm abandoning this issue for the time being, as it's not a priority.

[tripu]

This old idea may become more important, now that RawGit is shutting down…