git clone through ssh

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I have a project on which I created a git repository     cd myproject     git init     git add       git commit     I the wanted to create a bare clone on another machine     cd        git clone --bare myproject  ssh   user server  GitRepos myproject git     I executed the clone but did not print any answer  I logged on to the server machine and tried to see how the files are stored  The path  GitRepos was empty  so I decided to do the clone again       git clone --bare myproject  ssh   user server  GitRepos myproject git   This time the answer was       fatal  destination path  ssh   user server  GitRepos myproject git  already exists and is not an empty directory    But I saw that the path was empty  What s going on here

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This is possibly unrelated directly to the question; but one mistake I just made myself, and I see in the OP, is the URL specification ssh://user@server:/GitRepos/myproject.git - namely, you have both a colon :, and a forward slash / after it signifying an absolute path.

I then found Git clone, ssh: Could not resolve hostname – git , development – Nicolas Kuttler (as that was the error I was getting, on git version 1.7.9.5), noting:

The problem with the command I used initially was that I tried to use an scp-like syntax.

... which was also my problem! So basically in git with ssh, you either use

ssh://[email protected]/absolute/path/to/repo.git/ - just a forward slash for absolute path on server
[email protected]:relative/path/to/repo.git/ - just a colon (it mustn't have the ssh:// for relative path on server (relative to home dir of username on server machine)

Hope this helps someone,
Cheers!

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Easy way to do this issue try this  Step 1  ls -al    ssh   Step 2  ssh-keygen    using enter key for default value   Step 3  To setup config file vim  c Users Willie  ssh config   Host gitlab com HostName gitlab com User git IdentityFile    ssh id rsa  Step 4  git clone git gitlab com  lt username gt  test2 git   Step 5  When you finished Step 4 1 the test2 git file will be download done 2 you will get the new file known hosts  in the    ssh  PS  I create the id rsa and id rsa ub by meself and I deliver it to the Gitlab server  using both keys to any client-sides windows and Linux

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For repositories on GitHub  try   git clone ssh   git github com  lt user gt   lt repository name gt  git   For setting up git to clone via ssh see    Generating SSH Keys and add your generated key in Account Settings -  SSH Keys Cloning with SSH

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I want to attempt an answer that includes git-flow  and three  points  or use-cases  the git central repository  the local development and the production machine   This is not well tested   I am giving incredibly specific commands   Instead of saying  lt your folder gt   I will say  root git   The only place where I am changing the original command is replacing my specific server name with example com   I will explain the folders purpose is so you can adjust it accordingly   Please let me know of any confusion and I will update the answer   The git version on the server is 1 7 1   The server is CentOS 6 3  Final    The git version on the development machine is 1 8 1 1   This is Mac OS X 10 8 4   The central repository and the production machine are on the same machine   the central repository  which svn users can related to as  server  is configured as follows   I have a folder  root git where I keep all my git repositories   I want to create a git repository for a project I call  flowers    cd  root git git clone --bare flowers flowers git   The git command gave two messages   Initialized empty Git repository in  root git flowers git  warning  You appear to have cloned an empty repository    Nothing to worry about   On the development machine is configured as follows  I have a folder  home kinjal Sites where I put all my projects   I now want to get the central git repository   cd  home kinjal Sites git clone root example net  root git flowers git   This gets me to a point where I can start adding stuff to it   I first set up git flow  git flow init -d   By default this is on branch develop   I add my code here  now   Then I need to commit to the central git repository   git add   git commit -am  initial  git push   At this point it pushed to the develop branch   I want to also add this to the master branch   git flow release start v0 0 0 develop git flow release finish v0 0 0 git push   Note that I did nothing between the release start and release finish  And when I did the release finish I was prompted to edit two files   This pushed the develop branch to master   On the production site  which is on the same machine as my central git repository  I want put the repository in  var www vhosts example net   I already have  var www vhosts   cd  var www vhosts git clone file    root git flowers git example net   If the production machine would also be on a different machine  the git clone command would look like the one used on the development machine

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Disclaimer  This is just a copy of a comment by bobbaluba made more visible for future visitors  It helped me more than any other answer      You have to drop the ssh    prefix when using git clone as an example   git clone git github com owner repo git

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Git 101   git is a decentralized version control system  You do not necessary need a server to get up and running with git  Still you might want to do that as it looks cool  right   It s also useful if you want to work on a single project from multiple computers    So to get a  server  running you need to run git init --bare  lt your project gt  git as this will create an empty repository  which you can then import on your machines without having to muck around in config files in your  git dir   After this you could clone the repo on your clients as it is supposed to work  but I found that some clients  namely git-gui  will fail to clone a repo that is completely empty  To work around this you need to run cd  lt your project gt  git  amp  amp  touch  lt some random file gt   amp  amp  git add  lt some random file gt   amp  amp  git commit  amp  amp  git push origin master   Note that you might need to configure your username and email for that machine s git if you hadn t done so in the past  The actual commands to run will be in the error message you get so I ll just omit them    So at this point you can clone the repository to any machine simply by running git clone  lt user gt   lt server gt   lt relative path gt  lt your project gt  git   As others have pointed out you might need to prefix it with ssh    if you use the absolute path   This assumes that you can already log in from your client to the server   You ll also get bonus points for setting up a config file and keys for ssh  if you intend to push a lot of stuff to the remote server    Some relevant links  This pretty much tells you what you need to know  And this is for those who know the basic workings of git but sometimes forget the exact syntax

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I did    git clone --bare   GITREPOSITORIES RepoA   ssh   luc EERSTENASDS119J volume1 RepoA  Result    fatal  destination path  ssh   luc EERSTENASDS119J volume1 RepoA  already exists and is not an empty directory   The system created a directory ssh   luc EERSTENASDS119J volume1 RepoA in my current path   So git clone did not interpret the URL specification  Used the workaround of Alec

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You need to run the clone command on what you are calling the server  But I bet you are not running an ssh server on your local client so that won t work anyway  Suggest you follow this approach  check the manual  cause I m doing this from memory    Log into the server machine  Create a bare repo using git init --bare  On the client machine you can push your repo to the server  git remote add origin ssh   user server  GitRepos myproject git followed by git push origin master

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git clone git server Example proyect git

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Upfront  I am a bit lacking in my GIT skills   That is going to clone a bare repository on your machine  which only contains the folders within  git which is a hidden directory  execute ls -al and you should see  git or cd  git inside your repository   Can you add a description of your intent so that someone with more GIT skills can help  What is it you really want to do not how you plan on doing it

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