Thomas Rast wrote: > Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> url = /local/path/with/a/colon:in:it >> url = git://example.com/path/with/a/colon:in:it > > These work fine because the first case arm is "do we still have a > slash?", and thus takes precedence over the colon splitting. Ah, nice (sorry I missed that). So this can't create a regression and for what it's worth Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> >> url = simple.subdir.of.cwd > > That's caught by the outer 'case': I meant if remoteurl is not fully qualified. For what it's worth, the answer seems to be that git clone repo newdir replaces "repo" with the absolute path "$(pwd)/repo" and manually using a relative path as in git remote add origin subdir creates a remote that is not usable, perhaps because different parts of the code treat it as relative to different directories (.git or the toplevel). Sorry for the laziness --- I should have just checked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html