does not appear to be a git repository-fatal: does not appear to be a git repository

Question

Why am I getting this error when my git repository url is correct?

EDIT:

fatal: '[email protected]/gittest.git' does not appear to be a git repository

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

Answer 1

The correct scp-style way of specifying a repository is shown below:

[user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/

You should use instead of the URL:

[email protected]:/gittest.git

i.e. in the URL, you are using, you missed out the : (colon)

To update the URL for origin you may do:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:/gittest.git

Comments

Thanks, it helped! But then why didn't I get any error when I added remote