fatal: does not appear to be a git repository

I met a similar problem when I tried to store my existing repo in my Ubunt One account, I fixed it by the following steps:

Step-1: create remote repo

$ cd ~/Ubuntu\ One/
$ mkdir <project-name>
$ cd <project-name>
$ mkdir .git
$ cd .git
$ git --bare init

Step-2: add the remote

$ git remote add origin /home/<linux-user-name>/Ubuntu\ One/<project-name>/.git

Step-3: push the exising git reop to the remote

$ git push -u origin --all

You've got the syntax for the scp-style way of specifying a repository slightly wrong - it has to be:

[user@]host.xz:path/to/repo.git/

... as you can see in the git clone documentation. You should use instead the URL:

[email protected]:/gittest.git

i.e. in the URL you're using, you missed out the : (colon)

To update the URL for origin you could do:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:/gittest.git

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