Re: git clone git clone some://url

From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 20, 2019, 18:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20191120180709.GA63368@generichostname>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqimnfcikf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:50:24PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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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

That's why I have `git config alias.git !git` set. It's saved me seconds of my life from having to retype these lines. ;)

Unfortunately, I don't think we can take a similar approach for the `git clone git clone ...` case.

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