Say I wish to remotely retrieve a repository,
for instance geomant from got.saboua.xyz
(gotwebd server) which also has gotd(8) running:

# cat /etc/gotd.conf
repository geomant {
         path '/var/www/got/public/geomant'
         permit rw sylvain
         permit ro anonymous
         permit ro :got
}
repository rfdupes {
         path '/var/www/got/public/rfdupes'
         # empty repo atm
}
... (two websites' code in addition)

SSH/encryption is fine, I don't necessarily
require authentication since I want anyone
to be able to retrieve my code.

The following commands from an Apple M1 over
local network with got from brew.sh are not
working, and, do I really need to be asked a
password for anonymous ?

$ got clone ssh://lap/geomant
Connecting to ssh://lap/geomant
sylvansab@lap's password: ^C
$ got clone ssh://anonymous@lap/geomant
Connecting to ssh://anonymous@lap/geomant
anonymous@lap's password: ^C
$ got clone ssh://got@lap/geomant
Connecting to ssh://got@lap/geomant
got@lap's password:
got-fetch-pack: packet length has invalid format
got: bad packet received

My smartphone is for repair at the moment but
I also get an error while trying from termux using git:
$ git clone git://got@saboua.xyz/geomant
got@saboua.xyz's password:
fatal: protocol error: bad line length character: This

I have a got user configured on the system,
with password gotGOTgot.

$ grep got /etc/passwd /etc/group
/etc/passwd:_gotd:*:501:501:Game of Trees 
Daemon:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
/etc/passwd:got:*:2001:2001::/var/www/got/public/:/sbin/nologin
/etc/group:_gotd:*:501:
/etc/group:got:*:2001:got

I am not sure, maybe my problem stems
from wishing to use the same repository
with both gotwebd(8) and gotd(8) ?

You should be able to try if you want
using ssh://got@saboua.xyz/geomant

-- 
Sylvain Saboua