Question

git remote add joyent yourname.no.de:repo

I’m assuming that this means it is using the git protocol. I however have no idea what the :repo means at the end … because its not a port number. Is it the username? Is it looking for a git repo in ~/repo?

I really just want to add a port to that command and map it to something of the form:

git remote add joyent ssh://user@host:1234/wherevermyrepois

Answer 1

The last argument to git remote add tells git how to connect to the remote repository. In this case, the argument is yourname.no.de:repo, which means that it’s in the format hostname:path. The *hostname* part is yourname.no.de and names the host (computer) that has the repository. The *path* part is repo and is the filesystem path of the repository on yourname.no.de.

To turn it into a URL with a port number, try this:

git remote add joyent git://yourname.no.de:1234/repo

or this:

git remote add joyent git://yourname.no.de:1234/~username/repo

where username is your user name.

If you need to specify a different username that your local username, try this:

git remote add joyent git://[e-mail]:1234/~username/repo