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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/urls.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/urls.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bc354fe2dc..0000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/urls.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,105 +0,0 @@ -GIT URLS[[URLS]] ----------------- - -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 supports ssh, git, http, and https protocols (in addition, ftp, -and ftps can be used for fetching, but this is inefficient and -deprecated; do not use it). - -The native transport (i.e. git:// URL) does no authentication and -should be used with caution on unsecured networks. - -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/ - -An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol: - -- {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git/ - -This syntax is only recognized if there are no slashes before the -first colon. This helps differentiate a local path that contains a -colon. For example the local path `foo:bar` could be specified as an -absolute path or `./foo:bar` to avoid being misinterpreted as an ssh -url. - -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/ -- \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:gitremote-helpers[7] 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. |