Turns out it was a documentation problem. The page at
http://sparkleshare.org/set-up-a-host/ states :
Select “On my own server”, enter your server address in the Address
field and “/home/git/MyProject” in the Remote Path field.
Actually you have to enter ssh://username@host/
** Changed in: sparkleshare (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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Sparkleshare failed to load git backend when connecting to repository
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