How to troubleshoot a url error with “Port number ended with 'y'”?

Question

While trying to clone an already existing repository from gitlab into my local drive. I used the format

$ git clone https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2  mylibgit          


        

Answer 1

Gitlab actually requires a user when using deploy tokens. For me, this was caused by mixing in ssh syntax as http://:@gitlab.com:repo instead of gitlab.com/repo.