Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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 safe to simply remove it without > > further deprecation warnings. I suppose there's a chance some projects are so small they never trigger ref packing; especially if some people are serving .git out of a working directory... *shrug* But yeah, plain rsync remains usable, of course. > I cleaned up all of the documentation references I could find, except > one: the git-svn manual notes that because SVN metadata is kept outside > of refs, you should use rsync for cloning. I'm not sure what to > recommend there. I don't eve nthink that "git clone rsync://" would copy > that metadata. So perhaps it just meant "rsync the whole thing yourself" > (in which case it is OK to leave it). Yes, probably "rsync the whole thing yourself". And I should update that since "clone --mirror" supports remotes, nowadays. git-svn metadata is rebuildable anyways (unless somebody made the mistake of disabling it). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html