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Asked: 2026-05-25T15:07:34+00:00

Whenever I use the following url = ssh://user@dev.example.com:imageInfo.git in .git/config for a remote repo

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Whenever I use the following 

url = ssh://user@dev.example.com:imageInfo.git

in .git/config for a remote repo I get the following error

 ssh: connect to host  port 22: Connection refused
 fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

but if use the following

ssh user@dev.example.com

outside of git I connect without a problem.
Git also connects to same server with a gitosis user using

 url = gitosis@dev.example.com:imageInfo.git

in .git/config and it has not problems.

so to sum things up in short my .git/config file looks like this

 [remote "production"]
        url = ssh://user@dev.example.com:imageInfo.git
        url = gitosis@dev.example.com:imageInfo.git

any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have the format of the SSH URL wrong – you can either use the scp-style syntax, like:

    user@dev.example.com:imageInfo.git

    … or the true URL form, where you need a / after the host rather than a :, and an absolute path, which I can only guess at, e.g.:

    ssh://user@dev.example.com/srv/git/imageInfo.git

    The documentation for git’s URLs is here, but kernel.org is down at the moment, so you may want to look at the cached version here.

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