Why is this git clone command failing?

Question

Trying to use the git clone command. My understanding (please correct if wrong) was that in order to host a Git repository you just need a machine running ssh and t

Answer 1

I tried everything, I verified my keys, paths and tools versions. Still, I was unable to clone a repo from github using "git shell" "git gui" and "tortoise git".

I downloaded and installed "Visual Studio Tools for Git" (which required "VS2012 Update 2 CTP") and was able to clone the repo from inside Visual Studio:

• Click "Main Menu->View->Team Explorer"
• Click "Team Explorer->Connect To Team Projects"
• Click "Team Explorer->Local Git Repositories Section->Clone"
• Enter URL of Git Repo to Clone (yellow box)
• Enter or Browse for Local Folder to Clone into
• Click "Clone"

After a moment, the repo was cloned. I've successfully cloned a half dozen repo's this way where msysgit, github and tortoisegit all failed to work as expected.

Answer 2

I solved the problem by adding the following line to my ~/.bashrc file of the remote computer:

export PATH=$PATH:"/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin"

The problem was that $PATH did not include /usr/local/git/bin for non-interactive sessions. The addition to ~/.bashrc corrected that problem.

Answer 3

I had the same problem on mac os, and I solved this by copy the git-upload-pack from /usr/local/git/bin to /bin.

Answer 4

Another way would be to do:

git clone --upload-pack /path/to/git-upload-pack ssh://user@host/~/project/path/contactdb

Answer 5

I used

git clone mysite.net:/path/to/site

which worked for me.

Answer 6

I have had same problem and without removing expired certificate all of the sadden it started working. The only thing I did differently this time was to switch WiFi from been connected to the proxy network to my private mobile hot spot. Then I run below command in the Terminal

$ git clone https://my-login@bitbucket.org/project-folder/project-name.git

Then it started cloning and requested password..

Cloning into 'project-name'...
Password for 'https://my-login@bitbucket.org':

Repository has been downloaded..

remote: Counting objects: 2449, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1244/1244), done.
remote: Total 2449 (delta 1388), reused 1999 (delta 1070)
Receiving objects: 100% (2449/2449), 768.56 KiB | 101.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1388/1388), done.