Why git clone from remote machine says it is not a git repository?

Question

On the remote machine (ubuntu 12.04 ) I created a test/ folder in my repo folder and inside the folder I used:

git init

Running command ll inside the test folder will show me that there's .git folder inside test.
Now I want to clone remotely from this machine on my own machine (ubuntu 12.04) using:

git clone ssh://[email protected]/Documents/repos/test

But I get the following error:

Cloning into 'test'... [email protected]'s password: //I enter password then... fatal: '/Documents/repos/test' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

I'm quite new to using git and can't think of any reason that it shouldn't work.
How would you explain that error message?

@AlexeyTen no you can clone a non-bare repo as well. I only wonder if /Documents/repos/test is the right path or if it wasn't instead /home/rahil-p001/Documents/repos/test — VonC
– VonC, Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 10:02
@VonC I'll try that and will let you know. would make sense. — arash moeen
– arash moeen, Commented Feb 1, 2015 at 10:15

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:26:28Z

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That would be explained by the fact a normal Ubuntu distribution does not have a /Documents

(See for instance "The directory Tree")

Try instead the full path (check it with pwd -P) of your non-bare repo:

git clone ssh://[email protected]/home/rahil-p/Documents/repos/test

edited May 23, 2017 at 10:26

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answered Feb 1, 2015 at 10:06

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3 Comments

VonC Over a year ago

@arashmoeen Great. Don't forget that by default, you cannot push back to that (non-bare) repo. At least not until Git 2.3.0 and its new git config receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead (stackoverflow.com/a/28257982/6309).

arash moeen Over a year ago

Aha so if I wanna push back my changes from my own local machine to the remote repo I should've made it bare using git init --bare ?

VonC Over a year ago

@arashmoeen yes, knowing that, with a bare repo, you don't see any file in it: see more at stackoverflow.com/a/26687327/6309.

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