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Re: git clone git clone some://url

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 20, 2019, 03:50 UTC
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Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:
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> On some git hosting sites [*], if you copy the repository URL, you'll
> actually get "git clone some://url" in the cut buffer. When you then
> proceed to do "git clone <paste>" in the next terminal window, the
> command executed is actually this:
>
> $ git clone git clone some://url
> fatal: Too many arguments.
Or
    $ git git clone some://usr
    $ git git git diff
;-)

I seriously doubt "git" should do anything funky when fed such command lines.

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