How to setup and clone a remote git repo on Windows?
git, linux, ssh, windows
Solution
You have to set up some kind of sharing from the windows machine, that you can access with git. Git supports 3 access methods: ssh, remote filesystem or http. The last one is probably most complicated, so I won't detail it. The first two are:
Set up ssh server on windows.
You can try this guide: http://www.timdavis.com.au/git/setting-up-a-msysgit-server-with-copssh-on-windows/. See also this question for some more options
Update 2o23: Microsoft actually offers OpenSSH for Windows these days, including a service that you can just start to get a ssh server. Official guide starts here. It's a bit older version, but that only matters for exposing SSH agent to WSL2 and/or VMs.
Than you clone by `git clone username@xxx.xx.xxx.xx:/c/git/path/to/repo` (you will be asked for password).
Advantage of this method is that it's secure (connection is encrypted and ssh server is trustworthy), so you can use it over internet. Since git server is running on the windows machine during access, you can set up hooks for advanced security policy, controlling other processes and such.
Share the repository using windows sharing.
Than on the linux host, you need to mount the share with `smbmount`. That might require username and password, depending on how you set the permissions.
Than you clone by `git clone /share/mountpoint/path/to/repo`.
This is probably easier to set up, but it is not very secure, so it shouldn't be used outside local network. Also in this case hooks on the windows machine won't be executed (in fact git will try to execute them on the Linux machine, but they either won't run there or can be bypassed anyway), so you can't apply advanced security.
A particular file is not relevant, you need to give path to the directory containing `.git` subdirectory or to the directory that is a bare repository (`path/to/repo` above).
Problem
Anybody know how to checkout, clone, or fetch project or code from a git remote repository on a Windows server? Repository IP is: `xxx.xx.xxx.xx`, source file directory is `c:\repos\project.git` I am used to the command line interface from a SUSE Linux terminal. I have tried the same kind of method but it always replies that ``` fatal: ''/repo/project.git'' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository.. Please make sure you have the correct access rights ``` Can anyone tell me how to setup and clone?