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git clone over HTTP returns 500 on invalid host name

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Jun 13, 2012, 23:36 UTC
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$ git clone https://this.host.does.not.exist/foo Cloning into 'foo'... error: The requested URL returned error: 500 while accessing http://this.host.does.not.exist/foo/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed

Hmm. Telling me the host doesn't exist is more useful than 500:

$ git clone git://this.host.does.not.exist/foo Cloning into 'foo'... fatal: Unable to look up this.host.does.not.exist (port 9418) (Name or service not known)

Does anyone care about this other than me?  :-)
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  1. Shawn PearceJun 13, 2012
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