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

I got this error when I was trying to be smart and extract the cloning URL from the repo's URL myself. I did it wrong. I was doing:

git@https://github.company.com/Project/Core-iOS

where I had to do:

git@github.company.com:Project/Core-iOS.git

I had 3 mistakes:

• didn't need https://
• after .com I need : instead of /
• at the end I need a .git

Answer 2

I had the same problem, all I did was to restart the command line and then navigate to the document folder rather than the user folder using the command '' cd documents '' . That should be all thats needed. Also ensure that the link is correct.

Answer 3

I encountered the same problem after freshly installing git on Windows 10 and running it for the first time. Restarting the bash window solved the problem.