From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:55:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Unable to get "pretty" URL aliases working
Message-ID: <7vockytrwy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B4BB2DC.4090203@uq.edu.au>

Adam Nielsen <adam.nielsen@uq.edu.au> writes:

> What actually happens when you use the ssh:// style connection?

Be it ssh://host/full/path or host:/full/path or host:path/in/home, you
log in as whatver ssh identifies you as to the server, and start a
server-side git process over there.

With ssh://host/path notation, there is no way to specify any relative
path (i.e. "/path" part begins at root) so it will mean the same thing for
everybody (unless you are getting chrooted or something), while host:path
notation allows relative path which will be taken relative as where you
are, i.e. home directory of the user on the server.