Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > 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. Sounds like a sensible thing to do. > > 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 -- 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