Re: Bug: [hostname:port]:repo.git notation no longer works (for ssh)

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 27, 2013, 08:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ALCXo0ZN-_HRCvN-xDNiZt9FmonXF5=2YE6L8nJBQoOw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87vc1mg01t.fsf@aeneas.oslo.osa>

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Morten Stenshorne <mstensho@opera.com> wrote:

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> I've just upgraded to Debian testing (jessie), and with that I got a
> brand new (for me) git version:
>
>     $ git --version
>     git version 1.8.4.rc3
>
> Some of my repos I use an ssh tunnel to reach, so when I want to reach a
> repo forwarded to local port 2223, using the ssh protocol, the following
> used to work (.git/config) in older git versions:
>
>     [remote "exp"]
>             url = [localhost:2223]:blink.git
>             fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/exp/*
>
> However, now I get this message:
>
>     $ git fetch exp
>     fatal: ':blink.git' does not appear to be a git repository
>     fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Ugh.. bisect pointed to my commit 6000334 (clone: allow cloning local paths with colons in them - 2013-05-04). Will have a closer look tonight.

-- 
Duy