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 404 <div id="header">
 405 <h1>
 406 git-remote-ext(1) Manual Page
 407 </h1>
 408 <h2>NAME</h2>
 409 <div class="sectionbody">
 410 <p>git-remote-ext -
 411    Bridge smart transport to external command.
 412 </p>
 413 </div>
 414 </div>
 415 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 416 <div class="sectionbody">
 417 <div class="paragraph"><p>git remote add &lt;nick&gt; "ext::&lt;command&gt;[ &lt;arguments&gt;&#8230;]"</p></div>
 418 </div>
 419 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 420 <div class="sectionbody">
 421 <div class="paragraph"><p>This remote helper uses the specified <em>&lt;command&gt;</em> to connect
 422 to a remote git server.</p></div>
 423 <div class="paragraph"><p>Data written to stdin of the specified <em>&lt;command&gt;</em> is assumed
 424 to be sent to a git:// server, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack
 425 or git-upload-archive (depending on situation), and data read
 426 from stdout of &lt;command&gt; is assumed to be received from
 427 the same service.</p></div>
 428 <div class="paragraph"><p>Command and arguments are separated by an unescaped space.</p></div>
 429 <div class="paragraph"><p>The following sequences have a special meaning:</p></div>
 430 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 431 <dt class="hdlist1">
 432 '% '
 433 </dt>
 434 <dd>
 435 <p>
 436         Literal space in command or argument.
 437 </p>
 438 </dd>
 439 <dt class="hdlist1">
 440 <em>%%</em>
 441 </dt>
 442 <dd>
 443 <p>
 444         Literal percent sign.
 445 </p>
 446 </dd>
 447 <dt class="hdlist1">
 448 <em>%s</em>
 449 </dt>
 450 <dd>
 451 <p>
 452         Replaced with name (receive-pack, upload-pack, or
 453         upload-archive) of the service git wants to invoke.
 454 </p>
 455 </dd>
 456 <dt class="hdlist1">
 457 <em>%S</em>
 458 </dt>
 459 <dd>
 460 <p>
 461         Replaced with long name (git-receive-pack,
 462         git-upload-pack, or git-upload-archive) of the service
 463         git wants to invoke.
 464 </p>
 465 </dd>
 466 <dt class="hdlist1">
 467 <em>%G</em> (must be the first characters in an argument)
 468 </dt>
 469 <dd>
 470 <p>
 471         This argument will not be passed to <em>&lt;command&gt;</em>. Instead, it
 472         will cause the helper to start by sending git:// service requests to
 473         the remote side with the service field set to an appropriate value and
 474         the repository field set to rest of the argument. Default is not to send
 475         such a request.
 476 </p>
 477 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is useful if remote side is git:// server accessed over
 478 some tunnel.</p></div>
 479 </dd>
 480 <dt class="hdlist1">
 481 <em>%V</em> (must be first characters in argument)
 482 </dt>
 483 <dd>
 484 <p>
 485         This argument will not be passed to <em>&lt;command&gt;</em>. Instead it sets
 486         the vhost field in the git:// service request (to rest of the argument).
 487         Default is not to send vhost in such request (if sent).
 488 </p>
 489 </dd>
 490 </dl></div>
 491 </div>
 492 <h2 id="_environment_variables">ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:</h2>
 493 <div class="sectionbody">
 494 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 495 <dt class="hdlist1">
 496 GIT_TRANSLOOP_DEBUG
 497 </dt>
 498 <dd>
 499 <p>
 500         If set, prints debugging information about various reads/writes.
 501 </p>
 502 </dd>
 503 </dl></div>
 504 </div>
 505 <h2 id="_environment_variables_passed_to_command">ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES PASSED TO COMMAND:</h2>
 506 <div class="sectionbody">
 507 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 508 <dt class="hdlist1">
 509 GIT_EXT_SERVICE
 510 </dt>
 511 <dd>
 512 <p>
 513         Set to long name (git-upload-pack, etc&#8230;) of service helper needs
 514         to invoke.
 515 </p>
 516 </dd>
 517 <dt class="hdlist1">
 518 GIT_EXT_SERVICE_NOPREFIX
 519 </dt>
 520 <dd>
 521 <p>
 522         Set to long name (upload-pack, etc&#8230;) of service helper needs
 523         to invoke.
 524 </p>
 525 </dd>
 526 </dl></div>
 527 </div>
 528 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES:</h2>
 529 <div class="sectionbody">
 530 <div class="paragraph"><p>This remote helper is transparently used by git when
 531 you use commands such as "git fetch &lt;URL&gt;", "git clone &lt;URL&gt;",
 532 , "git push &lt;URL&gt;" or "git remote add &lt;nick&gt; &lt;URL&gt;", where &lt;URL&gt;
 533 begins with <tt>ext::</tt>.  Examples:</p></div>
 534 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 535 <dt class="hdlist1">
 536 "ext::ssh -i /home/foo/.ssh/somekey user&#64;host.example %S <em>foo/repo</em>"
 537 </dt>
 538 <dd>
 539 <p>
 540         Like host.example:foo/repo, but use /home/foo/.ssh/somekey as
 541         keypair and user as user on remote side. This avoids needing to
 542         edit .ssh/config.
 543 </p>
 544 </dd>
 545 <dt class="hdlist1">
 546 "ext::socat -t3600 - ABSTRACT-CONNECT:/git-server %G/somerepo"
 547 </dt>
 548 <dd>
 549 <p>
 550         Represents repository with path /somerepo accessable over
 551         git protocol at abstract namespace address /git-server.
 552 </p>
 553 </dd>
 554 <dt class="hdlist1">
 555 "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo"
 556 </dt>
 557 <dd>
 558 <p>
 559         Represents a repository with path /repo accessed using the
 560         helper program "git-server-alias foo".  The path to the
 561         repository and type of request are not passed on the command
 562         line but as part of the protocol stream, as usual with git://
 563         protocol.
 564 </p>
 565 </dd>
 566 <dt class="hdlist1">
 567 "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo %Vfoo"
 568 </dt>
 569 <dd>
 570 <p>
 571         Represents a repository with path /repo accessed using the
 572         helper program "git-server-alias foo".  The hostname for the
 573         remote server passed in the protocol stream will be "foo"
 574         (this allows multiple virtual git servers to share a
 575         link-level address).
 576 </p>
 577 </dd>
 578 <dt class="hdlist1">
 579 "ext::git-server-alias foo %G/repo% with% spaces %Vfoo"
 580 </dt>
 581 <dd>
 582 <p>
 583         Represents a repository with path <em>/repo with spaces</em> accessed
 584         using the helper program "git-server-alias foo".  The hostname for
 585         the remote server passed in the protocol stream will be "foo"
 586         (this allows multiple virtual git servers to share a
 587         link-level address).
 588 </p>
 589 </dd>
 590 <dt class="hdlist1">
 591 "ext::git-ssl foo.example /bar"
 592 </dt>
 593 <dd>
 594 <p>
 595         Represents a repository accessed using the helper program
 596         "git-ssl foo.example /bar".  The type of request can be
 597         determined by the helper using environment variables (see
 598         above).
 599 </p>
 600 </dd>
 601 </dl></div>
 602 </div>
 603 <h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
 604 <div class="sectionbody">
 605 <div class="paragraph"><p>Documentation by Ilari Liusvaara, Jonathan Nieder and the git list
 606 &lt;<a href="mailto:git@vger.kernel.org">git@vger.kernel.org</a>&gt;</p></div>
 607 </div>
 608 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 609 <div class="sectionbody">
 610 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
 611 </div>
 612 <div id="footer">
 613 <div id="footer-text">
 614 Last updated 2011-02-28 06:40:45 UTC
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