Aaron Schrab wrote: > Do not report that an argument to clone's --reference option is not a > local directory. Nothing checks for the existence or type of the path > as supplied by the user; checks are only done for particular contents of > the supposed directory, so we have no way to know the status of the > supplied path. Yes, makes sense. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> My only remaining qualm is that a person could be confused by the message after trying to pass in --reference=file:///path/to/repo, but I guess that trial and error would eventually lead such a person in the right direction. -- 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