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Update doc for ssh URL, describing path handling more clearly.
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
date Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:34:29 -0700
parents be4a14bfaa9c
children 703783bc09c4
files doc/hg.1.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/hg.1.txt
+++ b/doc/hg.1.txt
@@ -413,8 +413,10 @@ pull <repository path>::
       https://[user@]host[:port][/path]
       ssh://[user@]host[:port][/path]
 
-    SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destination
-    machine and a copy of hg in the remote path.
+    SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destination machine
+    and a copy of hg in the remote path.  With SSH, paths are relative
+    to the remote user's home directory by default; use two slashes at
+    the start of a path to specify it as relative to the filesystem root.
 
     options:
     -u, --update   update the working directory to tip after pull