Re: [BUG] clone: regression in error messages in master

John Szakmeister [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi,

So this should explain the problem:

  # using v1.8.3.1
  $ git clone https://google.com
  Cloning into 'google.com'...
  fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found

  # using master
  $ git clone https://google.com
  Cloning into 'google.com'...
  fatal: repository 'https://google.com/' not found
  fatal: Reading from helper 'git-remote-https' failed

I can see where this is confusing, but can also see how it's useful
information to have.  On clone, it's probably not that useful since
you're looking right at the url, but I could see that information
being more useful on a pull or push with the default arguments (when
the source and destination aren't quite as obvious).

The "extra" error messages is not the first one, but the last one,
and the suggested revert is a proposal to remove the latter, not the
"repository $URL not found".