Re: Clarification on the git+ssh and ssh+git schemes

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Jeff King [off-list ref] 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