Unable to clone a repo over an IPv6 link local address: port got trimmed to 4 chars

I discovered an issue while trying to clone a git repo over an IPv6 link-local address: [vb@nerenyi ~/code/ocaml-llnet]% LANG=C git clone http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo; Cloning into 'repo'... fatal: unable to access 'http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo/':

Re: Unable to clone a repo over an IPv6 link local address: port got trimmed to 4 chars

On 24/06/2014 15:15, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: Which OS are you using ? what does git --version give? And what does this do ? GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 LANG=C git clone http://[fe80::226:c6ff:fe50:efa0%wlan0]:33075/repo; My mistake, actually: As per RFC6874, IPv6 URI with zones have