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Re: [PATCH] clone: detect extra arguments

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 29, 2009, 16:06 UTC
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<20091029160614.GB7622@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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<20091029081030.GA11213@progeny.tock>
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:10:30AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> If git clone is given more than two non-option arguments, it
> silently throws away all but the first one.  Complain instead.
> [...]
> +	if (argc > 2)
> +		die("Too many arguments.");
> +
Should we maybe be showing the usage in this case?
>  	if (argc == 0)
>  		die("You must specify a repository to clone.");
Probably we should do the same here, too.
-Peff
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