Git url doc: mark ftp/ftps as read-only and deprecate them
It is not even worth mentioning their removal; just discourage people from using them. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -6,8 +6,12 @@ address of the remote server, and the path to the repository.
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Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be
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absent.
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-Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync
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-protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them:
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+Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp,
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+and ftps can be used for fetching and rsync can be used for fetching
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+and pushing, but these are inefficient and deprecated; do not use
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+them).
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+The following syntaxes may be used with them:
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- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/