I use an SSH tunnel to access my computer at work from home. On occasion I want to clone a git repo that is on the remote server. To do so its necessary to specify the port, which doesn't work with the conventional clone syntax.

E.g. <code>git clone hostname:path/to/repo</code>. The solution is to be a little more specific:

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git clone ssh://localhost:2222/~username/path/to/repo
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