What does the “.git” mean in a git URL?

Question

I setup a git repo in foo

cd
mkdir foo
cd foo
git init

Now I want to reference that remotely

git clone git+ssh://me@somemachine         


        

Answer 1

The .git suffix is just convention to indicate that the directory in question is a bare git repository (ie, one in which there is no working copy). It's not actually required.

As for git+ssh://, according to the git-fetch manpage, it is not allowed:

Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync protocols. The following syntaxes may be used with them:

• ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/
• git://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/
• http[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/
• ftp[s]://host.xz[:port]/path/to/repo.git/

• rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/

   An alternative scp-like syntax may also be used with the ssh protocol:>

• [user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/