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From: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
To: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git clone does not understand insteadOf URLs
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 21:03:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A25C77.6040205@svario.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130526190019.GM27005@serenity.lan>

Il 26/05/2013 21:00, John Keeping ha scritto:
>> Regardless of the implementation of the commands, if I do
>>
>>       mkdir projectA
>>       cd projectA
>>       git init .
>>       git remote add origin remote-repo/projectA.git
>>       git pull origin master
>>
>> I get a working repository. If I do
>>
>>       git clone remote-repo/projectA.git
>>
>> all I will get is an error.
>
> So the problem is that "git clone" does not seem to perform normal
> remote processing if you give it something that looks like a path.

I understand the problem. In the original email that started this thread 
I asked for...

> 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.

I think all the paths should mean the same in every git command. In this 
case, checking for insteadOf URLs before failing would solve this problem.

Regards,

-- 
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-26 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-25 20:23 git clone does not understand insteadOf URLs Gioele Barabucci
2013-05-26 15:13 ` Elia Pinto
2013-05-26 17:55   ` Gioele Barabucci
2013-05-26 18:00     ` Andreas Schwab
2013-05-26 18:09       ` Gioele Barabucci
2013-05-26 18:14         ` John Keeping
2013-05-26 18:21           ` Gioele Barabucci
2013-05-26 19:00             ` John Keeping
2013-05-26 19:03               ` Gioele Barabucci [this message]
2013-05-28 20:06       ` Junio C Hamano

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