According to git-clone[1] the SSH protocol is specied as: ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/path It woudl be nice if the ":" were allowed, so that the familiar SSH style patch notation could be used, making the spec: ssh://[user@]host.xz[:[port]]/path An example: ssh://foo@examplecom:/path | Allowed Jari [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-clone.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html