Git On Custom SSH Port

Question

My VPS provider recommends that I leave my SSH port to the custom port number they assign it by default  not 22    The thing is the while I know I can give the port number when create a remote config  it seems like I can t do the same when doing a git clone   I am using gitolite so I clone commands look like   git clone git mydomain com gitolite-admin   Is there a way to covert this to using the custom ssh port number   I should also mention I am running cygwin on windows   I have seen multiple places saying to add the custom port to the    ssh config file like  Host mydomain com     Port 12345   however in cygwin  that file does not seem to exist

User · Answer

When you want a relative path from your home directory (on any UNIX) you use this strange syntax:

ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo

For Example, if the repo is in /home/jack/projects/jillweb on the server jill.com and you are logging in as jack with sshd listening on port 4242:

ssh://[email protected]:4242/~/projects/jillweb

And when logging in as jill (presuming you have file permissions):

ssh://[email protected]:4242/~jack/projects/jillweb

User · Answer

Above answers are nice and great  but not clear for new git users like me  So after some investigation  i offer this new answer    1 what s the problem with the ssh config file way   When the config file does not exists  you can create one  Besides port the config file can include other ssh config option user IdentityFile and so on  the config file looks like  Host mydomain com     User git     Port 12345   If you are running linux  take care the config file must have strict permission  read write for the user  and not accessible by others  2 what about the ssh url way   It s cool  the only thing we should know is that there two syntaxes for ssh url in git   standard syntax ssh    user  host xz  port  path to repo git  scp like syntax  user  host xz path to repo git    By default Gitlab and Github will show the scp like syntax url  and we can not give the custom ssh port  So in order to change ssh port  we need use the standard syntax

User · Answer

git clone ssh   git mydomain com  port  gitolite-admin   Note that the port number should be there without the square brackets

User · Answer

Update  a few years later Google and Qwant  airlines  still send me here when searching for  git non-default ssh port   A probably better way in newer git versions is to use the GIT SSH COMMAND ENV VAR like   GIT SSH COMMAND  ssh -oPort 1234 -i    ssh myPrivate rsa key    git clone myuser myGitRemoteServer  my remote git repo path  This has the added advantage of allowing any other ssh suitable option  port  priv key  IPv6  PKCS 11 device

[git] Git On Custom SSH Port

Examples related to git

Examples related to version-control

Examples related to ssh

Examples related to cygwin