[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: change git.samba.org to https

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 17:48:49 UTC 2025


On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org> wrote:
>
> This is the preferred way to access the server.

Are you sure that is the preferred way?  75% of the entries in
MAINTAINERS use "git git://" not "git http://" but ... I did notice
that for all github and gitlab ones they use "git http://"
But maybe for samba.org there is an advantage to https?!


> Cc: Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com>
> Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 047d242faf68..d55c1c263e71 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -6179,7 +6179,7 @@ L:        linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
>  L:     samba-technical at lists.samba.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
>  S:     Supported
>  W:     https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS
> -T:     git git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git
> +T:     git https://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git
>  F:     Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/
>  F:     fs/smb/client/
>  F:     fs/smb/common/
> @@ -13611,7 +13611,7 @@ R:      Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky at chromium.org>
>  R:     Tom Talpey <tom at talpey.com>
>  L:     linux-cifs at vger.kernel.org
>  S:     Maintained
> -T:     git git://git.samba.org/ksmbd.git
> +T:     git https://git.samba.org/ksmbd.git
>  F:     Documentation/filesystems/smb/ksmbd.rst
>  F:     fs/smb/common/
>  F:     fs/smb/server/
> --
> 2.43.0
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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