git/Documentation/urls.txt

GIT URLS[[URLS]]
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One of the following notations can be used
to name the remote repository:

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- rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
- http://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
- https://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
- git://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
- git://host.xz/~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
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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:

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- {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
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To sync with a local directory, you can use:

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- /path/to/repo.git/
- file:///path/to/repo.git/
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They are mostly equivalent, except when cloning.  See
gitlink:git-clone[1] for details.