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[PATCH] Fix clone to setup the origin if its name ends with .git

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2007, 22:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20070606224906.GB3969@steel.home>

The problem is visible when cloning a local repo. The cloned repository will have the origin url setup incorrectly: the origin name will be copied verbatim in origin url of the cloned repository. Normally, the name is to be expanded into absolute path.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
---
 git-clone.sh           |    2 +-
 t/t5701-clone-local.sh |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t5701-clone-local.sh
diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index fdd354f..d45618d 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ usage() {
 get_repo_base() {
 	(
 		cd "`/bin/pwd`" &&
-		cd "$1" &&
+		cd "$1" || cd "$1.git" &&
 		{
 			cd .git
 			pwd
diff --git a/t/t5701-clone-local.sh b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..fb027f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t5701-clone-local.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='test local clone'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'preparing origin repository' \
+':>file && git add . && git commit -m1 && mv .git a.git'
+
+unset GIT_CONFIG
+
+test_expect_success 'local clone without .git suffix' \
+'git clone -l -s a b && cd b && git fetch && cd ..'
+
+test_expect_success 'local clone with .git suffix' \
+'git clone -l -s a.git c && cd c && git fetch && cd ..'
+
+test_done
-- 
1.5.2.1.141.g3c63
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