Re: rsync deprecated?

[demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>]

2008/12/20 Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 07:20:59PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de> writes:
>>
>> > in the "Merging external work" section of the gitcore-tutorial it is
>> > stated that the rsync transport is deprecated. The description was added
>> > in commit 914328a (Update tutorial., 2005-08-30) together with the
>> > "deprecated" note. Having never heard/read this before and since this
>> > commit is quite old, I wonder if it is still the case or there was a
>> > solution for this problem.
>>
>> Sorry, I do not quite understand what you perceive as "this problem".
>>
>> It has been deprecated for too long a time.  Maybe it is time to remove
>> the support, instead of carrying the deprecated command forever?  Is that
>> the problem you are talking about?
>>
>> I tend to agree that rsync transport way outlived its usefulness, and not
>> maintained at all.  There may be unnoticed and undiagnosed bugs lurking,
>> but nobody knows about it because nobody uses it.
>
> Something that could well make this transport be maintained would be to
> make it share code/internal API with the "local file transport".
> Ideally, http, rsync and file could all share the same basis, and
> ensuring the file transport to be functional would pretty much guarantee
> all work.

Just for the record: cloning via rsync is broken currently. I reported
this actually only shortly before Junio made this comment. Apparently
the code to copy across HEAD is missing from the rsync code, although
it is present for HTTP code.

Is there a bug tracking tool that git uses? I asked on #git on irc and
they said to just mail the list, but ive not seen any response to my
mail at all and the timing of Junios comment makes me wonder if my
report was seen by list regulars at all.

cheers,
Yves



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