On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 12:59:48PM -0800, Isaac Shabtay wrote: > Target directory is deleted on clone failures. > > Steps to reproduce, for example on Windows: > > cd /d %TEMP% > mkdir dest > git clone https://some-fake-url/whatever-makes-git-clone-fail dest > > Of course, the clone will fail as it should. But looks like the Git > client also ends up deleting the "dest" directory. Interesting. AFAICT Git has behaved this way for almost 9 years, and now we have two reports in two days. Serendipity, or did something else change? :) Anyway, you might be interested in the patch series I posted yesterday: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180102210753.GA10430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ -Peff