Git Receiving fatal Not a git repository when attempting to remote add a Git repo

Question

The issue happened when I tried to add the repo  to my local machine:

git remote add nfsn ssh://USERNAME@NFSNSERVER/home/private/git/REPONAME.git

I receive the following error:

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Can someone help me with this issue?

Answer 1

Just init a local Git repository, into which this remote is supposed to be added. Then check if your local directory has a .git folder. If so then try git init.
I hope this helps.