Re: rsync deprecated?

> 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.