Re: [PATCH 0/3] clone --local fixes

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 30, 2012, 11:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20120530110819.GB13445@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120530110305.GA13445@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 07:03:05AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

>   2. File URLs require absolute paths[1]. You can't do the equivalent of
>      "git clone --no-local foo.git" without resorting to $PWD.

I forgot to include my footnote, which was:

  You can actually do "git clone file://foo" and we will treat that as
  the path "foo". Which does not match the definition of the "file"
  scheme, which would interpret that as "host 'foo', no path", but does
  match what some other software does. However, if there _is_ a slash,
  then we correctly throw away the host bit, so that "file://junk/foo"
  _also_ points to the path "foo". Which means there is no equivalent
  for:

    git clone --no-local subdir/foo.git

-Peff