Re: git clone git clone some://url
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Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 21, 2019, 13:49 UTC
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- <20191121134928.GA1018@danh.dev>
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- <20191120064157.GA22081@msg.df7cb.de>
On 2019-11-20 07:41:58+0100, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
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> Re: Junio C Hamano 2019-11-20 <xmqqimnfcikf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> > > 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://"
Seriously, people should stop pasting random command from internet without reading.
Someone had written about paste-hijacking in the past.
c.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554679
-- Danh