From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gioele Barabucci Subject: git clone does not understand insteadOf URLs Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 22:23:44 +0200 Message-ID: <51A11DD0.4040802@svario.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 25 22:33:50 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UgL9u-0008Is-Tm for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 22:33:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758012Ab3EYUdm (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 May 2013 16:33:42 -0400 Received: from camelia.svario.it ([164.138.26.129]:56225 "EHLO mail.svario.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757990Ab3EYUdl (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 May 2013 16:33:41 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 592 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 25 May 2013 16:33:40 EDT Received: from [192.168.2.4] (dynamic-adsl-84-223-204-159.clienti.tiscali.it [84.223.204.159]) by mail.svario.it (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9A5052722C for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 20:23:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, it seems that `git clone` does not understand keywords used `insteadOf` longer URLs. $ git clone remote-repo/ProjectA.git fatal repository 'remote-repo/ProjectA.git' does not exist I suppose that git interprets the argument as a local directory. Git should see if the argument matches one of the known URLs before raising an error. Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci