git-clone: aggressively optimize local clone behaviour.

[git.git] / Documentation / urls.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index 781df4174b7493eb905d0c87c73751bd4bc77b75..b38145faff384344fde354152db186275ebeb5ca 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ to name the remote repository:
 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git
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-SSH is the default transport protocol.  You can optionally specify
-which user to log-in as, and an alternate, scp-like syntax is also
-supported.  Both syntaxes support username expansion,
-as does the native git protocol. The following three are
-identical to the last three above, respectively:
+SSH is the default transport protocol over the network.  You can
+optionally specify which user to log-in as, and an alternate,
+scp-like syntax is also supported.  Both syntaxes support
+username expansion, as does the native git protocol. The following
+three are identical to the last three above, respectively:
 
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 - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:/path/to/repo.git/
@@ -27,8 +27,12 @@ identical to the last three above, respectively:
 - {startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz:path/to/repo.git
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-To sync with a local directory, use:
+To sync with a local directory, you can use:
 
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 - /path/to/repo.git/
+- file:///path/to/repo.git/
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+
+They are mostly equivalent, except when cloning.  See
+gitlink:git-clone[1] for details.