From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [BUG] clone: regression in error messages in master Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:11:39 -0700 Message-ID: <7vli63mlro.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra , Git List , Jeff King To: John Szakmeister X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 21 19:11:47 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uq4sF-0004zZ-05 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:11:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423478Ab3FURLn (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:11:43 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:35947 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423404Ab3FURLm (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:11:42 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD362A080; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:11:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=WylG7Dmo27APwrZNehmT+1Lw2fY=; b=hHv14S 2p4cX4e62uLoziNuHUJAo0E5bbf7SZeLgnAuNiXmdEatRwXI9/CcQ9JM/dILRDrh 3mLQjwQKX+r16+kKAJzBqzfHRXaE3EiZQ+wWbVRCnDMnDRXmHBeOg/+MHREOQkzX RTyhU5U1OpGBnfT6x3dq+a3HTvbD0EWBKX6UU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=x/KKL0EtZa3dFXOi5dtKvV2GDCM3nHEe wvnuUix6MnzJwibkI4vPZYLwuLUTj7SIwvZ8zgKc3hHe7YcBz4dZs/C0CPjxymdi 4Trz6EVv4H599P4TAWmYvofFrIJf7GkWhdFUE3CgJmcHrGBOS7dpQRRkCHOhUmUJ ZtpITJrtOGg= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFBB12A07F; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [50.161.4.97]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 127572A07B; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:11:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (John Szakmeister's message of "Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:07:07 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: A3FE29C6-DA95-11E2-9B1E-80EC6777888E-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: John Szakmeister writes: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So this should explain the problem: >> >> # using v1.8.3.1 >> $ git clone https://google.com >> Cloning into 'google.com'... >> fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found >> >> # using master >> $ git clone https://google.com >> Cloning into 'google.com'... >> fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found >> fatal: Reading from helper 'git-remote-https' failed > > I can see where this is confusing, but can also see how it's useful > information to have. On clone, it's probably not that useful since > you're looking right at the url, but I could see that information > being more useful on a pull or push with the default arguments (when > the source and destination aren't quite as obvious). The "extra" error messages is not the first one, but the last one, and the suggested revert is a proposal to remove the latter, not the "repository $URL not found".