From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 22:10:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: allow --no-local to turn off local optimizations
Message-ID: <7vmx4pxqua.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120530215912.GC3237@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Similarly, I find it a little odd that "git clone file:///foo.git" will
> actually find a file named "file:/foo.git" before checking the URL (IOW,
> the argument is a path first, and then fallback to URL). I suspect
> nobody actually cares about either, as they are very unlikely corner
> cases.

Yeah, if anything, I would have expected --no-local to mean "I might
have a local file that happens to be the same as this URL, but I am
not cloning from there; just go straight to the URL using transports".