[mystifyingpoi]

I can imagine it being useful for some obscure setup of local CI (like Jenkins) that expects a Git URL and for whatever reason cannot just copy files from one directory to another. Or maybe Argo/Flux tinkering to mimic real repo. But nothing usual should require such tricks.

[adastra22]

There is no such thing as a git url. It is just a URI parser for the endpoint, which could be local filesystem, NFS, SSH, etc. Being able to HTTP fetch is/was an afterthought.