add note about non-standard rsync URIs

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 7ccea65..c413898 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ Performance
     incremental pushes.  Note that the latter won't work with a
     repository hosting service like Gitolite, GitHub or GitLab.
 
+rsync URIs
+    Note that the URI format for the rsync backend is, regretably,
+    non-standard.  git-remote-gcrypt uses ``rsync://user@host:path``
+    whereas plain rsync uses either ``user@host:path`` or
+    ``rsync://user@host/path``.
+
 Repository Format
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