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Asked: 2026-06-10T21:27:59+00:00

I have set up a simple server with a single git account to which

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I have set up a simple server with a single git account to which I connect using SSH.
I try to clone a repository located in its home directory (/srv/git) with git clone ssh://git@server:port/repository. It won’t work unless I prepend ~/ to the repository name.
If I don’t prepend it, it will work only if the repository is located at the root of the filesystem.

Somehow, git is not realizing its own user directory. How can I change this “odd” behaviour so it works as expected? (at least for me)

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to provide an absolute path or a path using the ~ to indicate the home directory. Quoting from git-clone(1):

    The ssh and git protocols additionally support ~username expansion:

    • ssh://[user@]host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/
    • git://host.xz[:port]/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/
    • [user@]host.xz:/~[user]/path/to/repo.git/

    An alternate solution would be using something such as gitolite. Then you will be able to use repository URLs such as sshuser@host:reponame

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