Clone SSH repository with non-standard port number to SourceTree

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I spent about 20 minutes messing around with this problem.

I was emailed an SSH address for a repository. Crucially it had a non-standard (i.e. not 22) port number: [email protected]:1234/opt/git/repository.git

I assumed I could just copy-paste that into SourceTree, but kept getting This is not a valid source path / URL error messages.

When I took a closer look at the logs, the error was that it was looking for the path 1234/opt/git/repository.git on the server - it was treating the port number as part of the path. And obviously not finding the repo.

yellow-saint · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-21T15:26:36.950

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The solution was slightly weird:

Use a path like ssh://[email protected]:1234:/opt/git/repository.git. Appending ssh://, and adding a : after the port number seemed to successfully act as a delimiter, and the path /opt/git/repository.git was found (as expected) on the server.
Add the domain/port number to your config file (e.g. ~/.ssh/config) so that it looks like this:

Host domain.com Port 1234

edited Sep 21 '17 at 15:26

answered Dec 18 '15 at 22:46

yellow-saint

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I tried your answer on my Synology NAS running a Git Server. However, I had to delete the ':' after the port number in order to have a working URL. Therefore, with me it was (using your example): ssh://[email protected]:1234/opt/git/repository.git – Peter Nov 19 '16 at 11:28
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Same situation as reported by @Peter. – Syrtis Major Oct 21 '18 at 17:08

Clone SSH repository with non-standard port number to SourceTree

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