rsync deprecated?

Hi,

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.

Markus