fatal: does not appear to be a git repository

Question

Why am I getting this error when my Git repository URL is correct?

fatal: '[email protected]/gittest.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

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jitendra@JITENDRA-PC /c/mySite (master)
$ git push beanstalk master
fatal: '[email protected]/gittest.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

jitendra@JITENDRA-PC /c/mySite (master)
$ git clone git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git
Cloning into jquery...
Remote: Counting objects: 19803, done.
Remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5196/5196), done.
Remote: Total 19803 (delta 14204), reused 19549 (delta 14052)
Receiving objects: 100% (19803/19803), 12.80 MiB | 591 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (14204/14204), done.

jitendra@JITENDRA-PC /c/mySite (master)
$ gitk --all

jitendra@JITENDRA-PC /c/mySite (master)
$ gitk -all

jitendra@JITENDRA-PC /c/mySite (master)
$ git remote add origin [email protected]/gittest.git

jitendra@JITENDRA-PC /c/mySite (master)
$ git push origin master
fatal: '[email protected]/gittest.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

jitendra@JITENDRA-PC /c/mySite (master)

Answer 1

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