Gitosis requires password even though the public key is given

Question

I\'m confronted with some problems when trying to configure gitosis on my Archlinux

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Setting_Up_Git_ACL_Using_gitosis

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Answer 1

An empty repository was created because that's just how git works: it has to init a repo before it can start pulling remote objects into it. Unfortunately this means you'll have to manually delete the empty repo before you try cloning again.

As for why the clone failed, it looks like you're using the wrong syntax for the remote repository path; git clone doesn't use scp syntax. In fact, if you don't specify a clone protocol, I believe it assumes the git protocol rather than ssh, which would probably be why it asked you for a password. Try this instead:

$ git clone ssh://gitosis@host/~/gitosis-admin.git