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user3183411

Reputation: 335

Cannot clone remote repository with SSH

I'm new to using Git and I am trying to understand why I cannot clone a remote repository using SSH. When I try to, it states that the System Cannot find the path specified.

git clone -u /mingw64/bin/git-upload-pack ssh://[email protected]/Git/quizinator

However, I can clone the repository just fine using the following command.

git clone -u /mingw64/bin/git-upload-pack file:////10.20.32.7/Git/quizinator

I've tried creating the a repo under the program files and even under the user account and I always get the same results. I just do not understand why one method works and the other does not.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 130

Answers (1)

torek
torek

Reputation: 487725

When you use a file:// URL, the -u argument to git clone is ignored:

--upload-pack <upload-pack>, -u <upload-pack>
       When given, and the repository to clone from is accessed via ssh, this specifies a non-default path for the command run on the other end.

(emphasis mine). The file:// URL makes your Git do all the work itself (your Git acts as both sender and receiver), so the file:// clone is quite unrelated to anything SSH-ish.

Given the URL, you might try:

ssh [email protected] ls -l /mingw64/bin/git-upload-pack

to see what the other machine thinks about /mingw64/bin/git-upload-pack (I'm asssuming ls -l will work due to mingw64; I don't "do" Windows though). If that works, you can then try:

ssh [email protected] ls -ld Git/quizinator

to see what it thinks of that.

Upvotes: 1

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