Bug report: git clone with dest

From: Isaac Shabtay <isaac@shabtay.com>
Date: Jan 3, 2018, 20:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CAK2k7nSsygwRj_Hhrz7-qXZ8UBB=O+deOeC2FFTkrGmWSUpKqA@mail.gmail.com>

Hello, Target directory is deleted on clone failures.

Steps to reproduce, for example on Windows:

cd /d %TEMP% mkdir dest git clone https://some-fake-url/whatever-makes-git-clone-fail dest

Of course, the clone will fail as it should. But looks like the Git client also ends up deleting the "dest" directory.

This shouldn't happen.

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