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diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 74774134e3..289019478d 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -1,68 +1,94 @@ GIT URLS[[URLS]] ---------------- -One of the following notations can be used -to name the remote repository: +In general, URLs contain information about the transport protocol, the +address of the remote server, and the path to the repository. +Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be +absent. -=============================================================== +Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync +protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them: + +- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ +- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ +- http{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ +- ftp{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ - 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://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/ -- ssh://host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/ -- ssh://host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git -=============================================================== - -SSH Is the default transport protocol and also supports an -scp-like syntax. Both syntaxes support username expansion, -as does the native git protocol. The following three are -identical to the last three above, respectively: - -=============================================================== -- host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/ -- host.xz:~user/path/to/repo.git/ -- host.xz:path/to/repo.git -=============================================================== - -To sync with a local directory, use: - -=============================================================== + +An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol: + +- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git/ + +The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion: + +- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ +- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ +- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/ + +For local repositories, also supported by git natively, the following +syntaxes may be used: + - /path/to/repo.git/ -=============================================================== - -REMOTES -------- - -In addition to the above, as a short-hand, the name of a -file in `$GIT_DIR/remotes` directory can be given; the -named file should be in the following format: - - URL: one of the above URL format - Push: <refspec> - Pull: <refspec> - -Then such a short-hand is specified in place of -<repository> without <refspec> parameters on the command -line, <refspec> specified on `Push:` lines or `Pull:` -lines are used for `git-push` and `git-fetch`/`git-pull`, -respectively. Multiple `Push:` and and `Pull:` lines may -be specified for additional branch mappings. - -The name of a file in `$GIT_DIR/branches` directory can be -specified as an older notation short-hand; the named -file should contain a single line, a URL in one of the -above formats, optionally followed by a hash `#` and the -name of remote head (URL fragment notation). -`$GIT_DIR/branches/<remote>` file that stores a <url> -without the fragment is equivalent to have this in the -corresponding file in the `$GIT_DIR/remotes/` directory. - - URL: <url> - Pull: refs/heads/master:<remote> - -while having `<url>#<head>` is equivalent to - - URL: <url> - Pull: refs/heads/<head>:<remote> +- file:///path/to/repo.git/ + +ifndef::git-clone[] +These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when +the former implies --local option. See linkgit:git-clone[1] for +details. +endif::git-clone[] + +ifdef::git-clone[] +These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies +--local option. +endif::git-clone[] + +When git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it +attempts to use the 'remote-<transport>' remote helper, if one +exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax +may be used: + +- <transport>::<address> + +where <address> may be a path, a server and path, or an arbitrary +URL-like string recognized by the specific remote helper being +invoked. See linkgit:git-remote-helpers[1] for details. + +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 "<actual url base>"] + insteadOf = <other url base> +------------ + +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 "<actual url base>"] + pushInsteadOf = <other url base> +------------ + +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. |