Git fatal: protocol 'https' is not supported

Question

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 "."

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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