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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-02-17 10:13:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-02-17 10:13:28 -0800 |
| commit | 9f03176ef679ea5e0fb9088529180db72ae0764b (patch) | |
| tree | cf143adf70750c6aa1ddc7d111ff26c812da81a9 /Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | |
| parent | Sixth batch for the 2.8 cycle (diff) | |
| parent | transport: drop support for git-over-rsync (diff) | |
| download | tgif-9f03176ef679ea5e0fb9088529180db72ae0764b.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/drop-rsync-transport'
It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when
the source repository has packed references for a long time, and
nobody noticed nor complained about it.
* jk/drop-rsync-transport:
transport: drop support for git-over-rsync
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt index 36e9ab3e16..15b3bfa8db 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt @@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ files). Again, this can all be simplified with ---------------- -$ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ my-git +$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ my-git $ cd my-git $ git checkout ---------------- @@ -1011,20 +1011,6 @@ $ git fetch <remote-repository> One of the following transports can be used to name the repository to download from: -Rsync:: - `rsync://remote.machine/path/to/repo.git/` -+ -Rsync transport is usable for both uploading and downloading, -but is completely unaware of what git does, and can produce -unexpected results when you download from the public repository -while the repository owner is uploading into it via `rsync` -transport. Most notably, it could update the files under -`refs/` which holds the object name of the topmost commits -before uploading the files in `objects/` -- the downloader would -obtain head commit object name while that object itself is still -not available in the repository. For this reason, it is -considered deprecated. - SSH:: `remote.machine:/path/to/repo.git/` or + @@ -1430,7 +1416,7 @@ while, depending on how active your project is. When a repository is synchronized via `git push` and `git pull` objects packed in the source repository are usually stored -unpacked in the destination, unless rsync transport is used. +unpacked in the destination. While this allows you to use different packing strategies on both ends, it also means you may need to repack both repositories every once in a while. |