I experienced similar results. In my haste, I pasted the full GitHub .git address of the repo before I saw that the input on the prompt said, “user/repo”. .
I tried pasting the repo address, the https clone address, the ssh clone address…
It was only when I completely reloaded the page in another browser (and slowed my roll), that I saw that the prompt loaded by saying “user/repo”.
#LessonLearned, just type in your GitHub username/repoName. #MaybeYourIssueIsDifferent #HaveAGoodDay
I may have worded the problem I wanted to raise in a hard to understand way, but I didn’t write the git import doesn’t work at all. What I wanted to say is that the situation when the import fails could be improved. So I’m not sure what these comments try to accomplish.
The situation is even so, that the content is deleted even when the import fails.