From: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:49:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone git clone some://url
Message-ID: <20191121134928.GA1018@danh.dev>
In-Reply-To: <20191120064157.GA22081@msg.df7cb.de>

On 2019-11-20 07:41:58+0100, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
> 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