Merge branch 'jk/head-symref'

diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt
index b38145faff384344fde354152db186275ebeb5ca..5355ebc0f39114823f830e0651078a99f0ac2e70 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/urls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/urls.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@ to name the remote repository:
 
 ===============================================================
 - rsync://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- http://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- https://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- git://host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
-- git://host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/
+- http://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- https://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
+- git://host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/~user/path/to/repo.git/
+- ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz{startsb}:port{endsb}/path/to/repo.git/
 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/path/to/repo.git/
 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~user/path/to/repo.git/
 - ssh://{startsb}user@{endsb}host.xz/~/path/to/repo.git
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@ to name the remote repository:
 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
+username expansion, as does the native git protocol, but
+only the former supports port specification. The following
 three are identical to the last three above, respectively:
 
 ===============================================================
@@ -34,5 +36,34 @@ To sync with a local directory, you can use:
 - file:///path/to/repo.git/
 ===============================================================
 
+ifndef::git-clone[]
 They are mostly equivalent, except when cloning.  See
-gitlink:git-clone[1] for details.
+linkgit:git-clone[1] for details.
+endif::git-clone[]
+
+ifdef::git-clone[]
+They are equivalent, except the former implies --local option.
+endif::git-clone[]
+
+
+If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and
+you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you
+use will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a
+configuration section of the form:
+
+------------
+       [url "<actual url base>"]
+               insteadOf = <other url base>
+------------
+
+For example, with this:
+
+------------
+       [url "git://git.host.xz/"]
+               insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/
+               insteadOf = work:
+------------
+
+a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be
+rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be "git://git.host.xz/repo.git".
+