From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 18:36:06 GMT
Subject: Re: ctrl-z ignored by git; creates blobs from non-existent repos
Message-ID: <Y8RHlukE5vtpq8Pj@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <Y8Qfj32h89hq5UD6@mit.edu>

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:45:19AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> > 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