Re: git clone git clone some://url

From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Date: Nov 20, 2019, 06:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20191120064157.GA22081@msg.df7cb.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimnfcikf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

Re: Junio C Hamano 2019-11-20 <xmqqimnfcikf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

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> 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
> 
> ;-)
> 
> I seriously doubt "git" should do anything funky when fed such
> command lines.

"git git git" is obviously silly. The problem is really just about this single issue:

1. go to some website, copy the git url
2. type "git clone" in the terminal
3. paste the url, hit enter
4. be annoyed when you ended up with "git clone git clone url://"

Christoph