Re: [PATCH 2/2] clone: allow --no-local to turn off local optimizations

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:20:19AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> By the way, a somewhat funny exercise I found last night is this:
> 
> 	$ cd /var/tmp
>         $ mkdir -p foo.xz:pub/git.git
>         $ cd foo.xz:pub/git.git
>         $ git init
>         $ git commit --allow-empty -m initial
>         $ cd /var/tmp
>         $ git clone foo.xz:pub/git.git x
> 
> This does not work as the transfer phase wants to run ssh on it.

Yeah, you would have to do file://$PWD/foo.xz:pub/git.git, I think. Of
course, there would be no way to specify "--local" while doing so... :)

Similarly, I find it a little odd that "git clone file:///foo.git" will
actually find a file named "file:/foo.git" before checking the URL (IOW,
the argument is a path first, and then fallback to URL). I suspect
nobody actually cares about either, as they are very unlikely corner
cases.

-Peff