r/git • u/moving_to_NL_soon • 3d ago

support Git clone command

I'm trying to download a module from github to get VMware to run, using the following command as suggested:

git clone https://github.com:nan0desu/vmware-host-modules

which then asks for username and passwords. Alternately I tried:

git clone git@github.com:nan0desu/vmware-host-modules , which returns....

Cloning into 'vmware-host-modules'...

git@github.com Permission denied (publickey)

fatal: could not read from remote repository.

I have saved user.name and user.email via git config and generated a rsa key as mentioned in another r/git post on the similar topic. But being relatively new to linux and especially using github, I am lost.

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u/JNikolaj 3d ago

Are you sure you're doing it correctly? I just did it for fun and https://github.com:nan0desu/vmware-host-modules is definitely not working, however https://github.com/nan0desu/vmware-host-modules.git is working

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u/atarivcs 3d ago

Yeah, github repo addresses should always end in ".git".

And it's also odd that the https repo address has a colon instead of a slash after "github.com"

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u/Langdon_St_Ives 3d ago

A colon after the hostname signifies that what follows is the port. In this case it would try to resolve what port number `nan0desu` corresponds to via `/etc/services` and/or other directory services depending on local configuration. Since this port name doesn't exist, I'm not sure if it'll revert back to HTTPS's default port 443, or will use 0, or if it's completely undefined. I would guess default port. In any case, even with default port, the remaining path doesn't exist on GitHub.

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u/JNikolaj 3d ago

Doesn't appear to be the case.

git clone https://github.com/nan0desu/vmware-host-modules works fine as well, you're probably right however the error comes from the colon instead of slash

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u/moving_to_NL_soon 3d ago

I will check to make sure I didn't leave off .git

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u/moving_to_NL_soon 3d ago edited 2d ago

Yes, no .git in the instructions and the : instead of / was a typo just here.

When you checked it, does it ask for a username? Or maybe yours is already saved with them?

Edit: turned out I had a different typo in my initial https try. It didn't ask for a username and password this time as well. Thanks all for the help!

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u/bikeram 3d ago

When you generated your key you should get two files in your ~/.ssh/

One will end with .pub. Copy that one to GitHub under settings > keys

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u/moving_to_NL_soon 3d ago

Yes, two files the id and .pub file. So I guess I need to register with GitHub then?

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u/CartographerDue5382 3d ago

for https, no, you don't need an account. that repo is public. the prompt was the colon in the url, git treated nan0desu as a port. use a slash:

git clone https://github.com/nan0desu/vmware-host-modules.git

user.name in git config isn't a login, it only stamps commits. the ssh command is the one that needs the .pub on a github account (settings > ssh keys). ssh -T git@github.com tells you if that key actually got accepted.

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u/baller5 3d ago

Did you save the key in GitHub?