docs: move http-protocol docs to man section 5

Continue the move of existing Documentation/technical/* protocol and
file-format documentation into our main documentation space by moving
the http-protocol.txt documentation over. I'm renaming it to
"protocol-http" to be consistent with other things in the new
gitformat-protocol-* namespace.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-08-04 18:28:41 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Git supports transferring data in packfiles over the ssh://, git://, http:// and
file:// transports. There exist two sets of protocols, one for pushing
data from a client to a server and another for fetching data from a
server to a client. The three transports (ssh, git, file) use the same
protocol to transfer data. http is documented in http-protocol.txt.
protocol to transfer data. http is documented in linkgit:gitprotocol-http[5].
The processes invoked in the canonical Git implementation are 'upload-pack'
on the server side and 'fetch-pack' on the client side for fetching data;