如何连接到远程仓库？

Question

I'm using libgit2sharp and i'm having rouble connecting to my remote repo.

I can connect to a local repo but when i try to use my repo https://github.com/myProject/myRepo i get an error

LibGit2Sharp.LibGit2SharpException: failed to make directory './https:': The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

Presumably this is because i'm not using the correct syntax. I've tried without https://, with www. i've tried just myProject/myRepo but they don't seem to work.

Here is the code in question. PathToRepo is the repo path and whenever i check the branches of my repo after it is created i ee that it is not connecting to the remote repo. The repo seems to create with no issues but it just doesn't sync to my repo. Ie. i could put in some bogus repo path and it will create with no problem but just not work.

 if (!Repository.IsValid(PathToRepo))
            {
                Repository.Init(PathToRepo);
            }

            repo = new Repository((PathToRepo));
            var brnch = repo.Branches.Where(x => x.FriendlyName == Branch).FirstOrDefault();
            if (brnch == null)
            {
                brnch = repo.CreateBranch(Branch);
            }
            Commands.Checkout(repo, brnch);

Answer 1

Just a guess, but you might want to try using the .git URL instead. So try something like https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git instead of https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Answer 2

Have a look at the source of LibGit2Sharp.Repository class that you are using: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2sharp/blob/master/LibGit2Sharp/Repository.cs

The constructor says the String path parameter is to a directory. I don't see any suggestion that this works with a web address, so I suspect that the constructor you are using only works with local repositories in a local directory.

After a quick search through that same source file, I found ListRemoteReferences which might list references for your remote repo, and Clone which will likely clone a remote repo. (I haven't tried either of these myself).