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GIT-REMOTE-EXT(1)              Git Manual              GIT-REMOTE-EXT(1)

NAME         top

       git-remote-ext - Bridge smart transport to external command.

SYNOPSIS         top

       git remote add <nick> "ext::<command>[ <arguments>...]"

DESCRIPTION         top

       This remote helper uses the specified <command> to connect to a
       remote Git server.

       Data written to stdin of the specified <command> is assumed to be
       sent to a git:// server, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack or
       git-upload-archive (depending on situation), and data read from
       stdout of <command> is assumed to be received from the same
       service.

       Command and arguments are separated by an unescaped space.

       The following sequences have a special meaning:

       '% '
           Literal space in command or argument.

       %%
           Literal percent sign.

       %s
           Replaced with name (receive-pack, upload-pack, or
           upload-archive) of the service Git wants to invoke.

       %S
           Replaced with long name (git-receive-pack, git-upload-pack,
           or git-upload-archive) of the service Git wants to invoke.

       %G (must be the first characters in an argument)
           This argument will not be passed to <command>. Instead, it
           will cause the helper to start by sending git:// service
           requests to the remote side with the service field set to an
           appropriate value and the repository field set to the rest of
           the argument. Default is not to send such a request.

           This is useful if the remote side is git:// server accessed
           over some tunnel.

       %V (must be first characters in argument)
           This argument will not be passed to <command>. Instead it
           sets the vhost field in the git:// service request (to the
           rest of the argument). Default is not to send vhost in such
           request (if sent).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES         top

       GIT_TRANSLOOP_DEBUG
           If set, prints debugging information about various
           reads/writes.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES PASSED TO COMMAND         top

       GIT_EXT_SERVICE
           Set to long name (git-upload-pack, etc...) of service helper
           needs to invoke.

       GIT_EXT_SERVICE_NOPREFIX
           Set to long name (upload-pack, etc...) of service helper
           needs to invoke.

EXAMPLES         top

       This remote helper is transparently used by Git when you use
       commands such as "git fetch <URL>", "git clone <URL>", , "git
       push <URL>" or "git remote add <nick> <URL>", where <URL> begins
       with ext::. Examples:

       "ext::ssh -i /home/foo/.ssh/somekey user@host.example %S
       foo/repo"
           Like host.example:foo/repo, but use /home/foo/.ssh/somekey as
           keypair and user as the user on the remote side. This avoids
           the need to edit .ssh/config.

       "ext::socat -t3600 - ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/git-server %G/somerepo"
           Represents repository with path /somerepo accessible over git
           protocol at the abstract namespace address /git-server.

       "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo"
           Represents a repository with path /repo accessed using the
           helper program "git-server-alias foo". The path to the
           repository and type of request are not passed on the command
           line but as part of the protocol stream, as usual with git://
           protocol.

       "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo %Vfoo"
           Represents a repository with path /repo accessed using the
           helper program "git-server-alias foo". The hostname for the
           remote server passed in the protocol stream will be "foo"
           (this allows multiple virtual Git servers to share a
           link-level address).

       "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo% with% spaces %Vfoo"
           Represents a repository with path /repo with spaces accessed
           using the helper program "git-server-alias foo". The hostname
           for the remote server passed in the protocol stream will be
           "foo" (this allows multiple virtual Git servers to share a
           link-level address).

       "ext::git-ssl foo.example /bar"
           Represents a repository accessed using the helper program
           "git-ssl foo.example /bar". The type of request can be
           determined by the helper using environment variables (see
           above).

SEE ALSO         top

       gitremote-helpers(7)

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the git (Git distributed version control
       system) project.  Information about the project can be found at
       ⟨http://git-scm.com/⟩.  If you have a bug report for this manual
       page, see ⟨http://git-scm.com/community⟩.  This page was obtained
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