Git clone, ssh: Could not resolve hostname

Now this was annoying. I tried a git clone ssh://user@my.host:/path/to/repository and it failed with

Initialized empty Git repository in /current/path/repository/.git/
ssh: Could not resolve hostname my.host:: Name or service not known
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

The solution was rather easy, see man 1 git-clone. A valid git URL looks like this:

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

Don’t try to use paths as ports. git isn’t scp.

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