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Custom Git URL Handlers
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Using a custom URL scheme for shorter GitHub URLs

Run the following command:

git config --global url.ssh://git@github.com/.insteadof gh:

This will tell Git to expand the gh: URL scheme to ssh://git@github.com. You can then checkout a repo using the shorter syntax:

git clone gh:fredjean/simpler_workflow
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