What is a Gitlab Instance URL?

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@ddoherty03 Thanks for sharing your feedback.

I’m trying to understand how the documentation should be changed. Currently, it says

  1. Open a terminal and run this command, replacing gitlab.example.com with your GitLab instance URL:
ssh -T git@gitlab.example.com

which instructs to replace gitlab.example.com only, thus keeping the leading user@ string being git@.

Would it be easier if the user login would be written using the -l parameter instead of the @ prefix?

ssh -T -l git gitlab.example.com

As such, only the GitLab instance URL gitlab.example.com would need to be replaced. On GitLab.com SaaS, the test can look like:

ssh T -l git gitlab.com

Welcome to GitLab, @dnsmichi!

Or we might need to better explain the user@server SSH connect pattern used in the command. Thoughts?