Re: Fw: [git-users] How do I git-push to an FTP server?

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>

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Oct 7, 2012, 15:28 UTC

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Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <tfnico@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Philippe Vaucher
>> <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On the git-users mailing list we're trying someone to help with
>>> > running `git push` over FTP.  That person is runnig Git 1.7.9.5
>>> > on Ubuntu 12.04.
>>>
>>> I don't think vanilla git supports pushing over ftp.
>>>
>>
>> At least according to the documentation[1], "Git natively supports [...] ftp".
>>
>> This could need some clarification if pushing over ftp is not supported.
>
> The commit 5ce4f4e (Documentation/urls: Rewrite to accomodate
> <transport>::<address>, 2010-04-06) that came from
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/145196/focus=145205
>
> was supposed to be just a clarification of the document, but it
> added ftp to the list without justification.

Hm, my bad.  Would this fix the problem?

-- 8< --
From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 20:57:15 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/urls: git does not natively support ftp

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/urls.txt | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 2890194..a65e894 100644
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -6,13 +6,12 @@ address of the remote server, and the path to the repository.
 Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be
 absent.

-Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync
-protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them:
+Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, and rsync protocols. The
+following syntaxes may be used with them:

 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 - git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 - http{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
-- ftp{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 - rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/

 An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:

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