title: git clone from a vps
body: <p>I'm having some trouble cloning my repository</p>
  
  <pre><code>$git clone ssh://root@8x.12x.9x.21x:/repo repo
  Cloning into 'repo'...
  fatal: '/repo' does not appear to be a git repository
  fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
  
  Please make sure you have the correct access rights
  and the repository exists.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>while i'm having no such trouble cloning on the vps itself. nor did i have trouble pushing to it from another computer. </p>
  
  <pre><code>$ ssh root@8x.12x.9x.21x
  Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 2.6.32-042stab111.11 x86_64)
  
  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
  Last login: Tue Mar  8 12:29:47 2016 from 80.79.35.115
  root@vps:~# ls
  deployment_test  my-project  repo
  root@vps:~# git clone repo repo2
  Cloning into 'repo2'...
  done.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does anybody know what might be the problem?</p>