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Last Updated: 2024-11-21

My Ansible installation of git failed with this error:

 "msg": "Cloning into '/home/ubuntu/ml-backend # aligned with github repo name'...\nfatal: repository 'https://github.com/jackkinsella/ml-backend # aligned with github repo name.git/' not found",

Eventually I figured out that the error was due to the variable I used to declare the git repo:

github_user=jackkinsella # Aligned with GitHub repo name

When I rewrote to the following, it worked:

# Aligned with GitHub repo name
github_user=jackkinsella

Lesson: