Re: New setup, trying to clone . . .

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Joshua Stoutenburg <jehoshua02@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm following these instructions:  http://progit.org/book/ch4-4.html
> 
> Everything has gone fine up until about halfway down the page, where it says:
> 
> >  At this point, the others can clone it down and push changes back up just as easily:
> >  $ git clone git@gitserver:/opt/git/project.git
> 
> Of course, replacing [git@gitserver:/opt/git/project.git] according to
> my setup, and I change directory to an empty directory apart from the
> original project, then I try the command, I get the following output:
> 
> At this point, the others can clone it down and push changes back up
> just as easily:
> 
> $ git clone gituser@192.168.1.102:/git/project.git
> Cloning into project...
> Connection closed by 192.168.1.102
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> 
> Any ideas what's going on here?

Note that 'gituser@192.168.1.102:/git/project.git' is an SSH URL.

There are two possible issues:

1. The path to repository is incorrect.

   If you are on the same machine as server, you can try cloning (or
   just 'git ls-remote') with a local path:

      git clone /git/project.git

   or

      git clone file:///git/project.git

2. The SSH setup is not correct: either SSH daemon is not started, or
   there is no 'gituser' account, or 'gituser' account doesn't have
   access to /git/project.git

   You can check first two with

      ssh gituser@192.168.1.102 echo Hello

HTH
-- 
Jakub Narębski