From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DD51F4B5 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727509AbfKSOW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:22:56 -0500 Received: from feynman.df7cb.de ([195.49.152.168]:38236 "EHLO feynman.df7cb.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727255AbfKSOW4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:22:56 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 434 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:22:55 EST Received: from msg.df7cb.de (unknown [IPv6:2003:5b:203b:100:7627:eaff:fe52:8e03]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by feynman.df7cb.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 47HSXV1y4hz3DyC for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:15:38 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:15:37 +0100 From: Christoph Berg To: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: git clone git clone some://url Message-ID: <20191119141537.GD18924@msg.df7cb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.2 (2019-09-21) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On some git hosting sites [*], if you copy the repository URL, you'll actually get "git clone some://url" in the cut buffer. When you then proceed to do "git clone " in the next terminal window, the command executed is actually this: $ git clone git clone some://url fatal: Too many arguments. As silly as the idea might sound, could the clone command possibly ignore these very specific extra arguments, and just proceed? This has happened countless times to me, and when I mentioned the idea on #debian-devel, there were others who had the same problem. Thanks, Christoph [*] hello sourceforge! example: https://sourceforge.net/p/wsjt/wsjtx/ci/master/tree/