Re: [bug] Cloning SSH repo into /tmp

From: Adrien Berchet <adrien.berchet@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 22, 2020, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAKuTeyc6WhEguV2mi_eg8JYrhri0inBJE-xHL3ZbFRGuYsyaDw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <000601d6a883$66d8e180$348aa480$@nexbridge.com>

I encountered this behaviour on Linux Mint 20. But I just tried on RedHatEnterpriseServer 7.6 and I could not reproduce this behaviour.

Le jeu. 22 oct. 2020 à 16:55, Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> a écrit :

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> On October 22, 2020 6:28 AM, Adrien Berchet wrote:
> > I encountered a quite weird bug when I tried to clone a repository into the
> > /tmp folder (I just wanted to test something, so I was working in /tmp).
> >
> > I run the following command in /tmp :
> >     git clone ssh://[user]@[host]/project/[project_name]
> > and I got the following error:
> >     fatal: the protocol '/tmp/ssh' is not supported
> >
> > I got the same result if a run the following command from /tmp directory:
> >     git clone ssh://[user]@[host]/project/[project_name] /tmp/project_name
> >
> > Nevertheless, the command works in other directories. Even the second
> > command works when run from another directory (this command: git clone
> > ssh://[user]@[host]/project/[project_name] /tmp/project_name).
> >
> > It is very specific and can easily be worked around so it is no big deal but I
> > preferred reporting this in case it hides something else.
>
> What platform are you running on? I have experienced similar when /tmp is linked to a separate file system with complex ACLs.
>
> Regards,
> Randall
>
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