From: Ramkumar Ramachandra Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 17:26:53 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Git url doc: mark ftp/ftps as read-only and deprecate them X-Git-Tag: v1.8.0-rc2~1^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6347e71619999481139862ac06f0f295ecf98658;p=git.git Git url doc: mark ftp/ftps as read-only and deprecate them It is not even worth mentioning their removal; just discourage people from using them. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 289019478..1d15ee7e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ address of the remote server, and the path to the repository. Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be absent. -Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync -protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them: +Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp, +and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching +and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use +them). + +The following syntaxes may be used with them: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ - git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/