Re: Clarification on the git+ssh and ssh+git schemes

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:33:06AM -0800, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

> git supports using git+ssh:// and ssh+git:// instead of ssh:// or the
> rsync-style format. The first two are however not documented in the
> git-clone manage as acceptable protocols (which is what I think of as
> the canonical source for what you can use). There are tests to make
> sure these are supported, but even the commit that allows for this
> (c05186cc; Support git+ssh:// and ssh+git:// URL) makes it pretty
> clear it’s not something that’s considered sensible.

Hrm. I tried to find more discussion on the list, but I couldn't find
any mention of git+ssh, nor of that patch. I wonder if there is a hole
in my archive, or if they were done off-list for some reason.

Anyway...

> But in either case, if we’re going to support it, it should be
> documented. If we don’t want to support it, then we should delete the
> references to these formats along with the tests for this.

Whether they are stupid or not (and I agree that they are), we cannot
just rip them out now without warning. And given that they are probably
not costing us a lot in maintenance burden to keep, I'd guess it is less
effort to simply leave them in place.

I suspect they were not really documented because nobody wanted to
encourage their use. I don't think it would be wrong to document that
they exist and are deprecated, though.

> I’m happy to write a patch going in either direction, but I’d like
> some input from the community as to what we want to do.

I imagine your ulterior motive is also figuring out whether libgit2
needs to support them?

-Peff