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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git clone git clone some://url
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:15:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191119141537.GD18924@msg.df7cb.de> (raw)

On some git hosting sites [*], if you copy the repository URL, you'll
actually get "git clone some://url" in the cut buffer. When you then
proceed to do "git clone <paste>" in the next terminal window, the
command executed is actually this:

$ git clone git clone some://url
fatal: Too many arguments.

As silly as the idea might sound, could the clone command possibly
ignore these very specific extra arguments, and just proceed? This has
happened countless times to me, and when I mentioned the idea on
#debian-devel, there were others who had the same problem.

Thanks,
Christoph

[*] hello sourceforge! example:
    https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/ci/master/tree/

             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-19 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-19 14:15 Christoph Berg [this message]
2019-11-20  3:50 ` git clone git clone some://url Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20  6:41   ` Christoph Berg
2019-11-21 13:49     ` Danh Doan
2019-11-20 18:07   ` Denton Liu
2019-11-22  5:44     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-12-04 21:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2019-12-05 12:35   ` Christoph Berg

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