Re: [BUG] clone: regression in error messages in master

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2013, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7vli63mlro.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAEBDL5UNNHnogHb2ztq2G8OxyCNMoLia7xYFNSy+kfHD3pS1pQ@mail.gmail.com>

John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> writes:

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> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> So this should explain the problem:
>>
>>   # using v1.8.3.1
>>   $ git clone https://google.com
>>   Cloning into 'google.com'...
>>   fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found
>>
>>   # using master
>>   $ git clone https://google.com
>>   Cloning into 'google.com'...
>>   fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found
>>   fatal: Reading from helper 'git-remote-https' failed
>
> I can see where this is confusing, but can also see how it's useful
> information to have.  On clone, it's probably not that useful since
> you're looking right at the url, but I could see that information
> being more useful on a pull or push with the default arguments (when
> the source and destination aren't quite as obvious).

The "extra" error messages is not the first one, but the last one, and the suggested revert is a proposal to remove the latter, not the "repository $URL not found".