fatal does not appear to be a git repository

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Why am I getting this error when my git repository url is correct   jitendra JITENDRA-PC  c mySite  master    git push beanstalk master fatal   git skarp beanstalkapp com gittest git  does not appear to be a git repository fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly  jitendra JITENDRA-PC  c mySite  master    git clone git   github com jquery jquery git Cloning into jquery    Remote  Counting objects  19803  done  Remote  Compressing objects  100   5196 5196   done  Remote  Total 19803  delta 14204   reused 19549  delta 14052  Receiving objects  100   19803 19803   12 80 MiB   591 KiB s  done  Resolving deltas  100   14204 14204   done   jitendra JITENDRA-PC  c mySite  master    gitk --all  jitendra JITENDRA-PC  c mySite  master    gitk -all  jitendra JITENDRA-PC  c mySite  master    git remote add origin git skarp beanstalkapp com gittest git  jitendra JITENDRA-PC  c mySite  master    git push origin master fatal   git skarp beanstalkapp com gittest git  does not appear to be a git repository fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly  jitendra JITENDRA-PC  c mySite  master    Edit  Replaced original screenshot  EDIT   fatal   git skarp beanstalkapp com gittest git  does not appear to be a git repository fatal  The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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my local and remote machines are both OS X. I was having trouble until I checked the file structure of the git repo that xCode Server provides me. Essentially everything is chmod 777 * in that repo so to setup a separate non xCode repo on the same machine in my remote account there I did this:

REMOTE MACHINE

Login to your account
Create a master dir for all projects 'mkdir git'
chmod 775 git then cd into it
make a project folder 'mkdir project1'
chmod 777 project1 then cd into it
run command 'git init' to make the repo
this creates a .git dir. do command 'chmod 777 .git' then cd into it
run command 'chmod 777 *' to make all files in .git 777 mod
cd back out to myproject1 (cd ..)
setup a test file in the new repo w/command 'touch test.php'
add it to the repo staging area with command 'git add test.php'
run command "git commit -m 'new file'" to add file to repo
run command 'git status' and you should get "working dir clean" msg
cd back to master dir with 'cd ..'
in the master dir make a symlink 'ln -s project1 project1.git'
run command 'pwd' to get full path
in my case the full path was "/Users/myname/git/project1.git'
write down the full path for later use in URL
exit from the REMOTE MACHINE

LOCAL MACHINE

create a project folder somewhere 'newproj1' with 'mkdir newproj1'
cd into it
run command 'git init'
make an alias to the REMOTE MACHINE
the alias command format is 'git remote add your_alias_here URL'
make sure your URL is correct. This caused me headaches initially
URL = 'ssh://[email protected]/Users/myname/git/project1.git'
after you do 'git remote add alias URL' do 'git remote -v'
the command should respond with a fetch and push line
run cmd 'git pull your_alias master' to get test.php from REMOTE repo
after the command in #10 you should see a nice message.
run command 'git push --set-upstream your_alias master'
after command in 12 you should see nice message
command in #12 sets up REMOTE as the project master (root)

For me, i learned getting a clean start with a git repo on a LOCAL and REMOTE requires all initial work in a shell first. Then, after the above i was able to easily setup the LOCAL and REMOTE git repos in my IDE and do all the basic git commands using the GUI of the IDE.

I had difficulty until I started at the remote first, then did the local, and until i opened up all the permissions on remote. In addition, having the exact full path in the URL to the symlink was critical to succeed.

Again, this all worked on OS X, local and remote machines.

User · Answer

I had a similar problem when using TFS 2017  I was not able to push or pull GIT repositories  Eventually I reinstalled TFS 2017  making sure that I installed TFS 2017 with an SSH Port different from 22  in my case  I chose 8022   After that  push and pull became possible against TFS using SSH

User · Answer

You ve got the syntax for the scp-style way of specifying a repository slightly wrong - it has to be    user  host xz path to repo git        as you can see in the git clone documentation   You should use instead the URL   git skarp beanstalkapp com  gittest git   i e  in the URL you re using  you missed out the    colon   To update the URL for origin you could do   git remote set-url origin git skarp beanstalkapp com  gittest git

User · Answer

It is most likely that you got your repo s SSH URL wrong   To confirm  go to your repository on Github and click the clone or download button  Then click the use SSH link     Now copy your official repo s SSH link  Mine looked like this - git github com borenho que-ay git  You can now do git remote add origin git github com borenho que-ay git if you didn t have origin yet   If you had set origin before  change it by using git remote set-url origin git github com borenho que-ay git  Now push with git push -u origin master

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I met a similar problem when I tried to store my existing repo in my Ubunt One account  I fixed it by the following steps   Step-1  create remote repo    cd   Ubuntu  One    mkdir  lt project-name gt    cd  lt project-name gt    mkdir  git   cd  git   git --bare init   Step-2  add the remote     git remote add origin  home  lt linux-user-name gt  Ubuntu  One  lt project-name gt   git   Step-3  push the exising git reop to the remote    git push -u origin --all

User · Answer

This is typically because you have not set the origin alias on your Git repository   Try  git remote add origin URL TO YOUR REPO   This will add an alias in your  git config file for the remote clone push pull site URL  This URL can be found on your repository Overview page

User · Answer

I was facing same issue with my one of my feature branch  I tried above mentioned solution nothing worked  I resolved this issue by doing following things   git pull origin feature-branch-name git push

User · Answer

I have a similar problem  but now I know the reason   After we use git init  we should add a remote repository using   git remote add name url   Pay attention to the word name  if we change it to origin  then this problem will not happen   Of course  if we change it to py  then using git pull py branch and git push py branch every time you pull and push something will also be OK

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