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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote-helpers.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,8 @@ INVOCATION
Remote helper programs are invoked with one or (optionally) two
arguments. The first argument specifies a remote repository as in git;
it is either the name of a configured remote or a URL. The second
-argument specifies a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>' or
-'<transport>::<address>', where '<address>' may be an arbitrary
-string.
+argument specifies a URL; it is usually of the form
+'<transport>://<address>', but any arbitrary string is possible.
When git encounters a URL of the form '<transport>://<address>', where
'<transport>' is a protocol that it cannot handle natively, it