[PATCH 1/2] [RFC] Detect attempts at calling git init specifying a remote repository.
We can only initialize local repositories, so bail out immediately if the
user tries to specify a remote repository.
---
builtin/init-db.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/init-db.c b/builtin/init-db.c
index 9d4886c..f80ff08 100644
--- a/builtin/init-db.c
+++ b/builtin/init-db.c
@@ -435,7 +435,12 @@ int cmd_init_db(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
int mkdir_tried = 0;
retry:
if (chdir(argv[0]) < 0) {
- if (!mkdir_tried) {
+ if (is_url(argv[0]) || strchr(argv[0], '@') != NULL || (strchr(argv[0], ':') != NULL && !has_dos_drive_prefix(argv[0]))) {
+ /*
+ * We were passed a remote repository specification.
+ */
+ die("Cannot initialize remote repository '%s'", argv[0]);
+ } else if (!mkdir_tried) {
int saved;
/*
* At this point we haven't read any configuration,
--
1.7.3
Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>