Re: Failure cloning from a separate-git-dir repository

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Richard Tibbitt [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

call git clone repo2git\.git clone2
fatal: repository 'repo2git\.git' does not exist

I guess this must be a peculiarity of msysgit on windows.

Yes. Try "call git clone repo2git/.git clone2" (forward slash). The
forward slash is hard coded some places in git-clone. I just want to
make sure you dont hit another problem.

As "fetch from bundle" (2e0afaf (Add git-bundle: move objects and
references by archive, 2007-02-22)) predates the "gitdir:" support
(b44ebb1 (Add platform-independent .git "symlink", 2008-02-20)) by a wide
margin, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the logic went "If the name can
be stat()ed and is a regular file, it must be a bundle. Otherwise it is a
local clone if it is a directory. All else ask the transport and see what
it says".

Why can't it be "git clone repo2git clone2" in the first place?