Git fatal: protocol 'https' is not supported
I am going through Github's forking guide: https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/ and I am trying to clone the repository onto my computer. However, running the command:
$ git clone https://github.com/./Spoon-Knife.git
Cloning into 'Spoon-Knife'...
fatal: protocol 'https' is not supported
Also tried with SSH:
$ git clone [email protected]:./Spoon-Knife.git
Cloning into 'Spoon-Knife'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address '.' to the list of known hosts.
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Do I need to change some configuration setting on my computer or is this a problem with GitHub?
Edit: I have replaced my username and IP address with "."
Problem is probably this.
You tried to paste it using
- CTRL + V
before and it didn't work so you went ahead and pasted it with classic
- Right Click - Paste**.
Sadly whenever you enter CTRL + V on terminal it adds
- a hidden ^?
(at least on my machine it encoded like that).
the character that you only appears after you
- backspace
(go ahead an try it on git bash).
So your link becomes ^?https://...
which is invalid.
Edit: This particular users problem was solved by starting a new terminal session.
A ? before the protocol (https) is not support. You want this:
git clone [email protected]:octocat/Spoon-Knife.git
or this:
git clone https://github.com/octocat/Spoon-Knife.git
Simple Answer is just remove the https
Your Repo. : (git clone https://........)
just Like That (git clone ://.......)
and again type (git clone https://........)
Just use double quotes with URL, like: git clone "https://yourRepoUrl"
(It somehow sees that you are using 2 quote marks on start, don't know why).
I was getting the same error => fatal: protocol ''https' is not supported (you can see 2 quote marks on https).