From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:53:09 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone NonExistentLocation
Message-ID: <4D5D5275.5070501@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin3Pf4XD_gbwxPzW4uff9SbDWJdGug6jM_SHDo+@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 15:03:
> Heya,
> 
> [Thanks for summarizing.]
> 
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:59, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> Sverre, with your 86ac751, the following two are equivalent (modulo a
>> warning) on a nonexisting dir:
>>
>> git clone dir
>> git init dir
>>
>> Is that intentional?
> 
> No, that was not intentional. The former should still be an error if
> 'dir' is an empy directory.
> 

Digging a little further: since a nonexisting directory is neither a dir
nor a file, clone thinks it is not local (is_local=is_bundle=0). None of
the transport_* commands error out since the relevant one is guarded by
86ac751...

Reverting that or forcing is_local=1 both help, but how to detect "local
nonexisting" reliably?

In fact, I don't have a problem with the current state if we document it :)

Michael