From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone git clone some://url
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:07:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191120180709.GA63368@generichostname> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimnfcikf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:50:24PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> Or
>
> $ git git clone some://usr
> $ git git git diff
That's why I have `git config alias.git !git` set. It's saved me seconds
of my life from having to retype these lines. ;)
Unfortunately, I don't think we can take a similar approach for the
`git clone git clone ...` case.
> ;-)
>
> I seriously doubt "git" should do anything funky when fed such
> command lines.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-20 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-19 14:15 git clone git clone some://url Christoph Berg
2019-11-20 3:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20 6:41 ` Christoph Berg
2019-11-21 13:49 ` Danh Doan
2019-11-20 18:07 ` Denton Liu [this message]
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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