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Re: ctrl-z ignored by git; creates blobs from non-existent repos

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 15, 2023, 18:36 UTC
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:45:19AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
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> > Expected: The same issue does not happen with other non-existent repos e.g.,
> > git clone git.zx2c4/ it returns the message of fatal repo not found
> 
> So what's going on is that github.com is not returning a non-existent
> repo error; it's prompting for a username/password, as _if_ the
> repository exists.  That's presumably to prevent disclosing
> information as to whether or not a private repository exists or not.
I can confirm that this is exactly the reason.
-Peff
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