Re: Fw: [git-users] How do I git-push to an FTP server?

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>>>> Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>>> At least according to the documentation[1], "Git natively supports [...] ftp".
>>>>>
>>>>> This could need some clarification if pushing over ftp is not supported.
>> [...]
>>> -Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync
>>> -protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them:
>>> +Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, and rsync protocols. The
>>> +following syntaxes may be used with them:
>>
>> Perhaps the initial list should not be exhaustive, in which case we
>> could say:
>>
>>       Git natively supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols.  The
>>       following syntaxes may be used with them:
>>
>>       ...
>>
>>       Git also has (less efficient) support for fetching and pushing
>>       over rsync protocol and fetching over ftp or ftps, using the
>>       same "protocol://host/path/to/repo.git/" syntax.
>
> Yeah, that, possibly with "These are deprecated; do not use them.",
> would be a better way forward.  As we deprecated "rsync" long time
> ago, perhaps we should remove it at Git 2.0 or somewhere around
> that.

I see.  Will we remove ftp[s] support too?  I hope this is in order.

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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 20:57:15 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/urls: mark rsync and ftp[s] as deprecated

Fetching and pushing over rsync, and fetching over ftp or ftps are
deprecated, and will soon be removed.  Add a note saying this.

Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/urls.txt | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 2890194..653b61c 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -6,14 +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 natively supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols. 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/
 - http{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- ftp{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/

 An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:

@@ -31,6 +29,11 @@ syntaxes may be used:
 - /path/to/repo.git/
 - file:///path/to/repo.git/

+ Git also has (less efficient) support for fetching and pushing over
+ rsync protocol and fetching over ftp or ftps, using the same
+ "protocol://host/path/to/repo.git/" syntax.  However, these are
+ deprecated, and will soon be removed.
+
 ifndef::git-clone[]
 These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when
 the former implies --local option. See linkgit:git-clone[1] for
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