5.2 Cloning The Repo With An ssh URL

In order to be able to commit changes to the repo, you must clone it using an ‘ssh://’ URL. Cloning the repo with ssh is similar to cloning with the Git protocol or with HTTP, but the URL is different:

$ git clone ssh://yourname@git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/gawk.git
-| ...

Here, you should replace ‘yourname’ in the command with the user name you chose for use on Savannah.