Which is the smarter git protocol, ssh or git(over ssh) or https protocol?

Question

Which is efficient? SSH:// or Git:// (File compression)

I understand in Git, git protocol is smart because there is a protocol agent on both ends of communication t

Answer 1

From Wikipedia:

To set up an SSH tunnel, one configures an SSH client to forward a specified local port to a port on the remote machine. Once the SSH tunnel has been established, the user can connect to the specified local port to access the network service. The local port need not have the same port number as the remote port.

If you need some kind of ASCII art representation:

Git Data ---> [SSH encrypts data] ----- Internet -----> [SSH decrypts data] ----> Git Data