Now rsync is exclusively used for copying files to and from remotes. scp is not longer supported.

debian/changelog

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ git-annex (0.15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     that are trusted to retain files without explicit checking.
   * Fix bug in numcopies handling when multiple remotes pointed to the
     same repository.
+  * Now rsync is exclusively used for copying files to and from remotes.
+    scp is not longer supported. 
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:13:20 -0400
 

doc/git-annex.mdwn

@@ -292,12 +292,6 @@ Here are all the supported configuration settings.
 
   git-annex caches UUIDs of repositories here.
 
-* `remote.<name>.annex-scp-options`
-
-  Options to use when using scp
-  to or from this repository. For example, to force ipv6, and limit
-  the bandwidth to 1000Kbit/s, set it to "-6 -l 1000"
-
 * `remote.<name>.annex-ssh-options`
 
   Options to use when using ssh to talk to this repository.
@@ -308,9 +302,9 @@ Here are all the supported configuration settings.
   to or from this repository. For example, to force ipv6, and limit
   the bandwidth to 100Kbyte/s, set it to "-6 --bwlimit 100"
 
-* `annex.scp-options`, `annex.ssh-options`, `annex.rsync-options`
+* `annex.ssh-options`, `annex.rsync-options`
 
-  Default scp, ssh, and rsync options to use if a remote does not have
+  Default ssh and rsync options to use if a remote does not have
   specific options.
 
 * `annex.version`

doc/walkthrough.mdwn

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ to clone the laptop's annex to it:
 	# cd ~/annex
 	# git annex init "my desktop"
 
-Now you can get files and they will be transferred (using `rsync` or `scp`):
+Now you can get files and they will be transferred (using `rsync`):
 
 	# git annex get my_cool_big_file
 	get my_cool_big_file (getting UUID for origin...) (copying from origin...)