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From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Newbie experience with push over ssh
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:27:31 +0100
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> I could create a local repository, commit in it, but then, I tried to
> push it to a remote machine, on which git is installed.
> 
> I would have expected "push" to do this, but:
> 
> $ git push ssh://machine.fr/tmp/foo 
> fatal: '/tmp/foo': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
git push is can only push into an existing repository, there seems to
be no repository in /tmp/foo on machine.fr.

> Then, I tried "clone":
> 
> $ git clone . ssh://machine.fr/tmp/foo
This means: "clone the repository at . to the directory
ssh://machine.fr/tmp/foo".  The first parameter is the repository to
clone from, the second is the directory to put the clone into (this is
optional).

I don't think there is any way to 'clone to remote'.  You'd have to
ssh to the other machine and clone from there, or you can just create
an empty repository on the remote host and push the stuff into it.