README: repositories on another machine
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In every layout, the words that changed inside a line are marked.
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- **Opens other repositories** from a list of recent ones, or from a folder picker
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(<kbd>o</kbd>).
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- **Opens repositories on another machine.** Write the place as `[user@]host:path`, for
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example `gites myserver:/srv/app`, or choose **Open on another machine…** in the
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repository menu (<kbd>o</kbd>) or on the welcome screen. `host` can be any host name
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from your `~/.ssh/config`; that file is also where a port other than 22 goes. gites
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runs git on that machine through ssh, so git must be installed there. It logs in with
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your ssh keys or the ssh agent and never asks for a password, so a login that needs a
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password does not work. You see the history of the repository on that machine: its own
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branches and its checked-out branch, as for a repository on this computer.
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- **Stays current.** gites reloads the repository when its window gets focus again.
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```sh
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gites # the repository in the current folder
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gites ~/code/my-project # another repository
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gites myserver:/srv/app # a repository on another machine, over ssh
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```
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