From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 03:50:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone git clone some://url
Message-ID: <xmqqimnfcikf.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20191119141537.GD18924@msg.df7cb.de>

Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:

> 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.