Re: git clone NonExistentLocation

Sverre Rabbelier venit, vidit, dixit 17.02.2011 15:03:

Heya,

[Thanks for summarizing.]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:59, Michael J Gruber
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Sverre, with your 86ac751, the following two are equivalent (modulo a
warning) on a nonexisting dir:

git clone dir
git init dir

Is that intentional?

No, that was not intentional. The former should still be an error if
'dir' is an empy directory.

Digging a little further: since a nonexisting directory is neither a dir
nor a file, clone thinks it is not local (is_local=is_bundle=0). None of
the transport_* commands error out since the relevant one is guarded by
86ac751...

Reverting that or forcing is_local=1 both help, but how to detect "local
nonexisting" reliably?

In fact, I don't have a problem with the current state if we document it :)

Michael