Cloning a git repo succeeds with the command line, but fails with a git GUI client (e.g. SourceTree)

Question

I\'ve set up a git user on a Mac OSX 10.7 system. In the git user\'s root, I\'ve created a repositories folder and initialized a bare git repo nam

Answer 1

In this case you do not need a user name so the "Source Path/URL" entry is just the path repositories/test.git You would see this by hitting the button to the right which gives an open file dialog.

A URL might work but that would be of a form protocol::user@address/path and you would have to have a server running on the machine to respond to the request (in this case a git or http server)