gistfile1.txt

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~
$ ls
ILoggedOnInLast30Days.txt  _viminfo  hello  tester

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~
$ ls
ILoggedOnInLast30Days.txt  _viminfo  hello  tester

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~
$ git clone file://hello cloned_hello
Cloning into 'cloned_hello'...
remote: Counting objects: 34, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (26/26), done.
remote: Total 34 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (34/34), done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), done.

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~
$ ls
ILoggedOnInLast30Days.txt  _viminfo  cloned_hello  hello  tester

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~
$ cd cloned_hello

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~/cloned_hello (master)
$ ls
Rakefile  lib  readme

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~/cloned_hello (master)
$ git hist --all
* b1d30ef 2013-01-14 | Updated Rakefile (HEAD, origin/master, origin/greet, orig
* 8c802bb 2013-01-14 | Hello uses Greeter [Jay-Adams12]
* 341da0e 2013-01-14 | Added greeter class [Jay-Adams12]
* 694e411 2013-01-14 | Added readme [Jay-Adams12]
* 3275b71 2013-01-14 | Added a Rakefile. [Jay-Adams12]
* b33f9bc 2013-01-14 | Moved hello.rb to lib [Jay-Adams12]
* cbbed9d 2013-01-14 | Add an author/email comment [Jay-Adams12]
* bda28b8 2013-01-14 | Added a comment (v1) [Jay-Adams12]
* bed8705 2013-01-14 | Added a default value (v1-beta) [Jay-Adams12]
* 1ffde48 2013-01-14 | Using ARGV [Jay-Adams12]
* 905d8a9 2013-01-14 | First Commit [Jay-Adams12]

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~/cloned_hello (master)
$ git remote
origin

dar016900@ESC-IT-SARTAN ~/cloned_hello (master)
$ git remote show origin
fatal: 'hello' 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.