Due to various components of the URI being stripped off it may happen that we fail to guess a directory name. We currently error out with a message that it is impossible to create the working tree '' in such cases. Instead, error out early with a sensible error message hinting that a directory name should be specified manually on the command line. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> --- builtin/clone.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c index 7d93e13..5834978 100644 --- a/builtin/clone.c +++ b/builtin/clone.c @@ -214,6 +214,10 @@ static char *guess_dir_name(const char *repo, int is_bundle, int is_bare) len = end - start; strip_suffix_mem(start, &len, is_bundle ? ".bundle" : ".git"); + if (!len || (len == 1 && *start == '/')) + die("No directory name could be guessed.\n" + "Please specify a directory on the command line"); + if (is_bare) dir = xstrfmt("%.*s.git", (int)len, start); else -- 2.5.0 -- 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