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RNdev
RNdev

Reputation: 1251

Can anyone explain the components of `[email protected]:name1/name2.git`?

I'm cloning a repo using git clone --recursive [email protected]:name1/name2.git, where name1 and name2 are specific to the project. I want to understand the meaning of each part of the string [email protected]:name1/name2.git. Specifically:

  1. What is [email protected]?

  2. What is name1?

  3. What is name2.git?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2610

Answers (1)

bk2204
bk2204

Reputation: 76784

This is an SSH location. You could also write this as a URL as ssh://[email protected]/name1/name2.git.

The git portion is the username, github.com is the host to which you're connecting, and name1/name2.git is the path component denoting the repository location, which is passed to the git-upload-pack or git-receive-pack command that's on the remote server.

In GitHub's case, the name1 portion is the owner of the repository and the name2 portion is the name of the repository, but Git SSH locations in general need not follow this form.

The .git portion on the end is optional and typically denotes that the remote location is a bare Git repository; Git will attempt to add it automatically if it's needed but you don't specify it.

Upvotes: 2

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