I considered quoting the clone directory. However, since the base implementation used replace calls, I followed suit.<br />Whenever there was a parenthesis in the repo name, the clone would fail with the original implementation. <br />There should not be any side effects: no released version of Bitbake/git fetcher has support for parentheses in<br />in the repo name.<br /><br />I agree that a replacement list/map is a more scalable solution, but might come with a higher risk of side effects.<br />The same can be said for quoting the clone directory. Adding replace calls was a simple fix to a simple and narrow problem.