Can't git fetch through SSH

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Published on 2009-02-15T12:14:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 2:38 UTC
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I've setup a git repository one a remote server. Now I'm trying to checkout from it with:

git fetch ssh://[email protected]/~username/workfolder/

but I get an error:

fatal: Not a git repository

What am I doing wrong? Could it be the server does not support Git+SSH?

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