connect: accept file:// URL scheme

[thirdparty/git.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/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.  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. 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, use:

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- /path/to/repo.git/
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