Bill Lear [off-list ref] writes:
On Monday, July 2, 2007 at 23:22:05 (-0700) Junio C Hamano writes:
quoted
I'll apply this after 1.5.3. In the meantime, I'll do this for 1.5.3.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt
index 19b5f88..141b767 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-local-fetch.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
-----------
+THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED.
...
If a deprecated command has a replacement, the deprecation notice
should point the user to that.
Actually these fetch backend shouldn't even be needed by the end
users. "git fetch" simply does not drive them these days.