From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:36:25 GMT Subject: Re: Clarification on the git+ssh and ssh+git schemes Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20160205193027.GC7245@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Jeff King wrote: > > I suspect they were not really documented because nobody wanted to > encourage their use. I don't think it would be wrong to document that > they exist and are deprecated, though. They exist because some people seemed to think that people shouldn't use "ssh://" since they thought that only ssh should use that. Which is obviously bullshit, since by that logic all the other formats should have that idiotic "git+" format too ("git+https", anybody?). It doesn't actually help anything, and it only pushes somebodys broken agenda. So there was a push for that silly thing by a couple of people, but it was always wrong. Don't even document it. Leave it in the source code as an option, and maybe add a comment about "This is stupid, but we support it for hysterical raisins". Don't add it to any real documentation. Not even as deprecated. That just validates it further. Linus