Git fatal: protocol 'https' is not supported

Question

I am going through Github\'s forking guide: https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/ and I am trying to clone the repository onto my computer. However, running the command:

Answer 1

Problem is probably this.

You tried to paste it using

• CTRL +V

before and it didn't work so you went ahead and pasted it with classic

• Right Click - Paste**.

Sadly whenever you enter CTRL +V on terminal it adds

• a hidden ^?

(at least on my machine it encoded like that).

the character that you only appears after you

• backspace

(go ahead an try it on git bash).

So your link becomes ^?https://...

which is invalid.