0e40a73a4c
Improve the command description, including paragraph spacing. Git URLs can accept bundle files for fetch, pull and clone, include in that section. Include git clone in the bundle usage description. Correct the quoting of <git-rev-list-args>. Detail the <git-rev-list-args> options for cloning a complete repo. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT URLS[[URLS]]
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In general, URLs contain information about the transport protocol, the
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address of the remote server, and the path to the repository.
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Depending on the transport protocol, some of this information may be
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absent.
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Git supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp,
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and ftps can be used for fetching, but this is inefficient and
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deprecated; do not use it).
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The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and
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should be used with caution on unsecured networks.
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The following syntaxes may be used with them:
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- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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- http{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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- ftp{startsb}s{endsb}://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:
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- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git/
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This syntax is only recognized if there are no slashes before the
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first colon. This helps differentiate a local path that contains a
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colon. For example the local path `foo:bar` could be specified as an
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absolute path or `./foo:bar` to avoid being misinterpreted as an ssh
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url.
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The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:
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- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/~{startsb}user{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
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For local repositories, also supported by Git natively, the following
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syntaxes may be used:
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- /path/to/repo.git/
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- \file:///path/to/repo.git/
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ifndef::git-clone[]
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These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except when cloning, when
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the former implies --local option. See linkgit:git-clone[1] for
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details.
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endif::git-clone[]
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ifdef::git-clone[]
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These two syntaxes are mostly equivalent, except the former implies
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--local option.
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endif::git-clone[]
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'git clone', 'git fetch' and 'git pull', but not 'git push', will also
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accept a suitable bundle file. See linkgit:git-bundle[1].
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When Git doesn't know how to handle a certain transport protocol, it
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attempts to use the 'remote-<transport>' remote helper, if one
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exists. To explicitly request a remote helper, the following syntax
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may be used:
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- <transport>::<address>
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where <address> may be a path, a server and path, or an arbitrary
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URL-like string recognized by the specific remote helper being
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invoked. See linkgit:gitremote-helpers[7] for details.
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If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and
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you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you
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use will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a
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configuration section of the form:
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[url "<actual url base>"]
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insteadOf = <other url base>
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For example, with this:
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[url "git://git.host.xz/"]
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insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/
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insteadOf = work:
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a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be
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rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be "git://git.host.xz/repo.git".
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If you want to rewrite URLs for push only, you can create a
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configuration section of the form:
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[url "<actual url base>"]
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pushInsteadOf = <other url base>
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For example, with this:
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[url "ssh://example.org/"]
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pushInsteadOf = git://example.org/
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a URL like "git://example.org/path/to/repo.git" will be rewritten to
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"ssh://example.org/path/to/repo.git" for pushes, but pulls will still
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use the original URL.
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