Cloning a git repo succeeds with the command line, but fails with a git GUI client (e.g. SourceTree)

Question

I've set up a git user on a Mac OSX 10.7 system. In the git user's root, I've created a repositories folder and initialized a bare git repo named test .

So far so good. Now, I clone the repo from a PC on the same network as the Mac with

git clone git@mac:repositories/test.git

This succeeds. I can then, push and pull from this repo. All looks good.

But, when trying to do the same thing with Atlassian SourceTree - a GUI git client - this fails :

This is not a valid source path / URL

Anyone an idea what I might be doing wrong?

Answer 1

In this case you do not need a user name so the "Source Path/URL" entry is just the path repositories/test.git You would see this by hitting the button to the right which gives an open file dialog.

A URL might work but that would be of a form protocol::user@address/path and you would have to have a server running on the machine to respond to the request (in this case a git or http server)

Answer 2

You may need to look for the Port in your source Path/URL. I corrected mine by adding port something like this.. xxxxxxxx.com:YYYY/xxxxx

where xxx... is the usual source Path and YYYY is the Port Number.