git克隆文件夹未在AWS ec2 CentOS 6实例中显示

Question

I'm trying to clone a public repo from Github (with the usual git clone https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>.git command) into an AWS EC2 instance running CentOS 6 (after logging in as root of course), so I can deploy it. It says something like

Initialized empty Git repository in /root/<repo-name>/.git/

but I tried to access with with cd <repo-name> but I get the error message -bash: cd: <repo-folder>: No such file or directory . Having used Git for a very long time, this is the first time I have experience this. I couldn't find anything online about this. Not completely a guru in AWS EC 2 server but are the folders hidden for some reasons? This is a weird behavior that I don't normally run into on other systems.

EDIT: here is what I did in the terminal (minus the exact names)

[root@AWS-ec2-server ~]# git clone https://github.com/username/repo-name.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /root/repo-name/.git/
[root@AWS-ec2-server ~]# ls
[root@AWS-ec2-server ~]# pwd
/root
[root@AWS-ec2-server ~]#

So where is my repo after I clone?

EDIT2: I was able to get this working after setting up SSH and clone with the SSH url instead of the HTTPS url.

git clone git@github.com:username/repo-name.git

I still would like to know why the HTTPS doesn't work for some reasons. Here is some more info requested by Leon.

My git version is 1.7.1

ls -al /root outputs to be

total 76
dr-xr-x---.  8 root root 4096 Jul 11 07:46 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 Jul 11 05:52 ..
-rw-------.  1 root root 5715 Jul 11 07:21 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   18 May 20  2009 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  487 Jul 11 01:28 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  292 Jul 11 01:28 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  100 Sep 23  2004 .cshrc
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root 4096 Jul 11 02:05 .gem
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   19 Jul 11 02:05 .gemrc
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   51 Jul 11 02:13 .gitconfig
-rw-------.  1 root root 3239 Jul 11 07:38 github
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  742 Jul 11 07:38 github.pub
drwxr-----.  3 root root 4096 Jul 11 00:36 .pki
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 Jul 11 02:05 .rbenv
drwx------.  2 root root 4096 Jul 11 06:53 .ssh
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  129 Dec  3  2004 .tcshrc
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root 4096 Jul 11 07:29 test
drwxr-xr-x. 11 root root 4096 Jul 11 07:46 texter

No output for env|grep GIT_ as requested

Answer 1

Found out that the current instance of AWS EC2 powered by CentOS is not working correctly. I started a new one and git clone works fine without needing to configure SSH to clone it