git clone is saying the repo does not exist

Question

I followed some simple steps found in this

Forked a repo
Copied the https address
ran git clone address

I am now getting this error

git clone https://github.com/hide_name/pr0-underbar.git repo_underbar
Cloning into 'repo_underbar'...
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/hide_name/pr0-underbar.git/' not found

What can I do to fix or trouble shoot?

I checked on my github page and the repository is definitely there.

Google Search

https://www.google.com/#q=git+clone+says+repository+not+found

This did not work:

Git Clone - Repository not found

Is the repo private? GitHub will return 404 for private repos unless you provide the proper credentials. — Irvin Lim, Apr 24 '17 at 17:17
Side node: I got this because VSCode thought it would be smart and replaced my spaces with `%20`'s; then as a result it was trying to execute a clone of my local file path instead of the repo name... — Andrew, Nov 17 '20 at 22:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 26 '18 at 07:38

Similar issue:

I had this error many times, even when the repo and branch exist & I am in the right folder. Today, I could figure finally.

See example:

C:\my-repo1>git clone my-branch1

fatal: repository 'my-branch1' does not exist

C:\my-repo1>git checkout my-branch1

Switched to a new branch 'my-branch1'
Branch 'my-branch1' set up to track remote branch 'my-branch1' from 'origin'.

As you can see, I should use checkout instead of clone, because I already cloned it & I am in local repo directory correctly.
This happens multiple times because clone and checkout start with the same letter, and you need to get other people code (getting clone of their repo, but they are on same repo, but in a different branch) so just checkout will work.
Obviously, clone a branch (instead of repo) does not mean anything, but we sometimes type it anyway.

git clone is saying the repo does not exist

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