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diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 781df4174..b38145faf 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ to name the remote repository: - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git =============================================================== -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: +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. The following +three are identical to the last three above, respectively: =============================================================== - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/ @@ -27,8 +27,12 @@ identical to the last three above, respectively: - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git =============================================================== -To sync with a local directory, use: +To sync with a local directory, you can use: =============================================================== - /path/to/repo.git/ +- file:///path/to/repo.git/ =============================================================== + +They are mostly equivalent, except when cloning. See +gitlink:git-clone[1] for details. |