Re: Newbie experience with push over ssh

From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 14:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20070214142731.GA1478@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <vpq64a4bzp1.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:

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> 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.