From: Shawn Pearce Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:36:33 GMT Subject: git clone over HTTP returns 500 on invalid host name Message-ID: $ 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? :-)