I've been scratching my head for a little while trying to figure out
why I kept getting a

"ssh://me@myrepo.blah/root/project does not appear to be a git repository"

on a Transport Error (Cannot List the available branches) box when
attempting to run the Clone Git Repository command. This was despite
pasting the sourceforge git repo line directly. Turns out the parser
in today's version of eGit/Eclipse parses the URL and keeps the
forward slash ahead of "/root" and passes it on to the server as the
root of the filesystem.

Removing the leading forward slash seems to fix everything.