GIT URLS[[URLS]] ---------------- One of the following notations can be used to name the remote repository: - rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/ - http://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ - https://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ - git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ - git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~user/path/to/repo.git/ - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/path/to/repo.git/ - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/ - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git SSH is the default transport protocol over the network. You can optionally specify which user to log-in as, and an alternate, scp-like syntax is also supported. Both syntaxes support username expansion, as does the native git protocol, but only the former supports port specification. The following three are identical to the last three above, respectively: - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/ - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:~user/path/to/repo.git/ - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git To sync with a local directory, you can use: - /path/to/repo.git/ - file:///path/to/repo.git/ ifndef::git-clone[] They are mostly equivalent, except when cloning. See linkgit:git-clone[1] for details. endif::git-clone[] ifdef::git-clone[] They are equivalent, except the former implies --local option. endif::git-clone[] If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you use will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a configuration section of the form: ------------ [url ""] insteadOf = ------------ For example, with this: ------------ [url "git://git.host.xz/"] insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/ insteadOf = work: ------------ a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be "git://git.host.xz/repo.git". If you want to rewrite URLs for push only, you can create a configuration section of the form: ------------ [url ""] pushInsteadOf = ------------ For example, with this: ------------ [url "ssh://example.org/"] pushInsteadOf = git://example.org/ ------------ a URL like "git://example.org/path/to/repo.git" will be rewritten to "ssh://example.org/path/to/repo.git" for pushes, but pulls will still use the original URL.