On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 02:01:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@xxxxxx> writes: > > > This makes my think that it is > > a) non-standard to have the extra colon > > b) The error message could be better > > For that, perhaps > > -ssh: Could not resolve hostname xxxx:: nodename nor servname provided, or not known > +ssh: Could not resolve hostname "xxxx:": nodename nor servname provided, or not known > > would be something we would want to do, no matter what other fixes > we would apply. That message comes from the ssh client. So the "we" here would have to submit a patch to OpenSSH". The easier way to diagnose inside git is to set GIT_TRACE, which makes it more clear: $ GIT_TRACE=1 git clone ssh://bogosity:/repo.git ... 17:05:00.734019 run-command.c:347 trace: run_command: 'ssh' 'bogosity:' 'git-upload-pack '\''/repo.git'\''' -Peff -- 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