fatal: does not appear to be a git repository

I set up a empty git repo on my production server with

git init --bare

From my local machine i added the repo as a remote:

git remote add origin ssh://user@

If i issue following command

git remote show origin

I get an error message saying:

fatal: '~/git/example.com' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I tried the colon as mentioned here, but it didn't help.

3 Answers

With SSH URLs, relative paths start from your home directory, and it doesn't understand shell shortcuts like ~. So do:

git remote add origin ssh://user@

if you want to use absolute paths, like /home/mario/git/example.com, use an extra leading slash:

git remote add origin ssh://user@

This means that the remote server does not have a repo at ~/git/example.com I suspect you have the address wrong. Most git addresses will be something like :project.git. Most do not have a path or a reference to ~

I have the answer to my own problem...

I am using the URL conventions used in this post

The Domain i was using was just defined in my local hosts file. Which seems to work with everything else, accept for git.

I then replaced the example.com part with the actual Server IP and got it working.