Re: Error when cloning with weird local directory

Torsten Bögershausen [off-list ref] writes:

So I think that git clone can be slighty more consistant here.

Sure.

quoted

I _think_ taking notice of "word://" (with doubled slashes) and
treating it specially will not introduce any new issue; while it is
still OK for users to have a local directory called "word:", if they
meant a subdirectory of it, they wouldn't have typed double-slashes
there.