Referring to Git Remote Repositories

You can specify git repositories in different ways, depending on the protocol you use.

File System

• /path/to/repo.git
• file:///path/to/repo.git

Git native protocol

• git://example.com/path/to/repo.git
• git://example.com/~user/path/to/repo.git

SSH connection

• ssh://[user@]example.com[:port]/path/to/repo.git
• ssh://[user@]example.com/path/to/repo.git
• ssh://[user@]example.com/~user2/path/to/repo.git
• ssh://[user@]example.com/~/path/to/repo.git

SSH (short form - no port support)

• [user@]example.com:/path/to/repo.git
• [user@]example.com:~user/path/to/repo.git
• [user@]example.com:path/to/repo.git

HTTP and HTTPS URL variants

• http://example.com/path/to/repo.git
• https://example.com/path/to/repo.git

rsync protocol (highly discouraged)

• rsync://example.com/path/to/repo.git

For more information read the book Version Control with Git ;)
Best,
iss