Update doc for ssh URL, describing path handling more clearly. 0.7
authorBryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:34:29 -0700
changeset 1265 979c04997448
parent 1264 be4a14bfaa9c
child 1266 703783bc09c4
Update doc for ssh URL, describing path handling more clearly.
doc/hg.1.txt
--- a/doc/hg.1.txt	Fri Sep 16 21:34:18 2005 +0200
+++ b/doc/hg.1.txt	Fri Sep 16 13:34:29 2005 -0700
@@ -413,8 +413,10 @@
       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