# git-clone tries to cd to a remote repository

2 messages from 2007-05-14 to 2007-05-14. Participants: Tero Roponen, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8155

## Tero Roponen, 2007-05-14 15:41

Subject: git-clone tries to cd to a remote repository
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705141836350.26948@jalava.cc.jyu.fi>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Pine.LNX.4.64.0705141836350.26948%40jalava.cc.jyu.fi

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Hi,

the latest git seems to output a warning every time I
try to clone a repository that is not local:

$ git --version
git version 1.5.2.rc3.27.g43d151

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
/usr/local/bin/git-clone: line 23: cd: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git: No such file or directory
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/terrop/repositories/git/.git/
remote: Generating pack...
...

I think the output should be redirected to /dev/null,
but I'm not a shell/git guru...

-- 
Tero Roponen

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-05-14 21:25

Subject: [PATCH] Fix git-clone buglet for remote case.
Message-ID: <7vr6pjm71b.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vr6pjm71b.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705141836350.26948@jalava.cc.jyu.fi>

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c2f599e09fd0496413d1744b5b89b9b5c223555d introduced a buglet while
cloning from a remote URL; we forgot to squelch the unnecessary
error message when we try to cd to the given "remote" name,
in order to see if it is a local directory.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

Tero Roponen <teanropo@jyu.fi> writes:

  > the latest git seems to output a warning every time I
  > try to clone a repository that is not local:
  >
  > $ git --version
  > git version 1.5.2.rc3.27.g43d151
  >
  > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
  > /usr/local/bin/git-clone: line 23: cd: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git: No such file or directory

  Yup, thankfully that is harmless but it is ugly and wrong
  nevertheless.  Thanks for the report.

 git-clone.sh |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-clone.sh b/git-clone.sh
index 70374aa..fdd354f 100755
--- a/git-clone.sh
+++ b/git-clone.sh
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ get_repo_base() {
 		cd "`/bin/pwd`" &&
 		cd "$1" &&
 		{
-			cd .git 2>/dev/null
+			cd .git
 			pwd
 		}
-	)
+	) 2>/dev/null
 }
 
 if [ -n "$GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY" ]; then
-- 
1.5.2.rc3.27.g43d151

```