Re: [PATCH v2] clone: allow cloning local paths with colons in them

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:34:51AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > diff --git a/t/t5601-clone.sh b/t/t5601-clone.sh
> > index 67869b4..0629149 100755
> > --- a/t/t5601-clone.sh
> > +++ b/t/t5601-clone.sh
> > @@ -280,4 +280,9 @@ test_expect_success 'clone checking out a tag' '
> >  	test_cmp fetch.expected fetch.actual
> >  '
> >  
> > +test_expect_success NOT_MINGW,NOT_CYGWIN 'clone local path foo:bar' '
> > +	cp -R src "foo:bar" &&
> > +	git clone "./foo:bar" foobar
> > +'
> 
> Hmph, why not
> 
> 	git clone --mirror src foo:bar &&
>         git clone ./foo:bar foobar

Yeah, not only does that avoid "cp -R", but it is a nice check that we
do not do anything stupid with colons on the dst argument (which we
should obviously not, but it cannot hurt to exercise it).

> or something?  Also do we have a easy negative case we want to test,
> i.e. a case where we do not want the new codepath to trigger by
> mistake?

Yeah, checking "git clone host:path" would be nice, but such a case
would want to go through ssh. I suspect we could point GIT_SSH at a
script like:

  #!/bin/sh
  echo "ssh: $*" >ssh-log &&
  host=$1; shift
  cd "pretend-hosts/$host" && exec "$@"

It looks like t5602 does something similar already.

-Peff