I am trying to use ssh port forwarding to defeat corporate firewall:

```
ssh git@GIT_SERVER -L9418:GIT_SERVER:9418

```

and in another terminal I run

```
git clone git://localhost:repositories/project.git

```

But I get the following error:

> 
> Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/aboxer/tmp/glucosia/.git/
> 
> 
> fatal: Unable to look up localhost (port repositories) (nodename nor servname provided, or not known)
> 
> 
> 

Thanks!