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Subject: Re: Why not clone to a remote directory over SSH
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:41:56AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Obviously, this only works if the other side can connect to this side via 
> ssh. Hmm. Firewalls? Disabled sshd? `hostname` not reliably returning a 
> valid address for the remote side?

If sshd is running locally, you can forward a port back to yourself and
have the remote clone localhost:`pwd`.  Assuming there's a way to clone
using a nonstandard port.

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