[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] get_maintainer: use 'https://' instead of 'git://'

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

When you clone the repository without previous commit history, 'git://'
doesn't protect from man-in-the-middle attacks.  HTTPS is more secure
since the client verifies the server certificate.

Reported-by: Jann Horn <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/get_maintainer.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
index 43fb5f512f..fc7275b9e2 100755
--- a/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
+++ b/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
@@ -1376,7 +1376,7 @@ sub vcs_exists {
        warn("$P: No supported VCS found.  Add --nogit to options?\n");
        warn("Using a git repository produces better results.\n");
        warn("Try latest git repository using:\n");
-       warn("git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git\n");
+       warn("git clone https//git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git\n");
        $printed_novcs = 1;
     }
     return 0;
-- 
2.17.2