From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:44:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] clone: abort if no dir name could be guessed Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1438769179-5943-4-git-send-email-ps@pks.im> Patrick Steinhardt writes: > Due to various components of the URI being stripped off it may > happen that we fail to guess a directory name. We currently error > out with a message that it is impossible to create the working > tree '' in such cases. Instead, error out early with a sensible > error message hinting that a directory name should be specified > manually on the command line. Sounds like a sensible thing to do. > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt > --- > builtin/clone.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c > index 7d93e13..5834978 100644 > --- a/builtin/clone.c > +++ b/builtin/clone.c > @@ -214,6 +214,10 @@ static char *guess_dir_name(const char *repo, int is_bundle, int is_bare) > len = end - start; > strip_suffix_mem(start, &len, is_bundle ? ".bundle" : ".git"); > > + if (!len || (len == 1 && *start == '/')) > + die("No directory name could be guessed.\n" > + "Please specify a directory on the command line"); > + > if (is_bare) > dir = xstrfmt("%.*s.git", (int)len, start); > else