Re: [PATCH] transport: drop support for git-over-rsync

2016-01-30 Thread Eric Wong
Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 02:21:26AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > > Even the commit porting rsync over to C from shell (cd547b4) > > lists it as deprecated! So between the 10 years of informal > > warnings, and the fact that it has been severely broken > > since 2007, it's probably s

Re: [PATCH] transport: drop support for git-over-rsync

2016-01-29 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 02:21:26AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > Even the commit porting rsync over to C from shell (cd547b4) > lists it as deprecated! So between the 10 years of informal > warnings, and the fact that it has been severely broken > since 2007, it's probably safe to simply remove it wit

[PATCH] transport: drop support for git-over-rsync

2016-01-29 Thread Jeff King
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:30:36AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > I guess that doesn't handle subsequent fetches. But > really...git-over-rsync is just an awful protocol. Nobody should be > using it. Having looked at it in more detail, I'm more in favor than > ever of removing it. So here it is. I thi