On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 10:25:58PM -0700, Leslie Wang wrote: > Recently we try to upgrade ubuntu from 17.10 to 18.04, then we found > one inconsistent behavior on git clone. > > At 2.14.1 or 2.15.1, if I run command like > - mkdir /tmp/111 > - git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:111/111 /tmp/111 > > because it will failure, then /tmp/111 will be removed automatically. > > However, at latest 2.17.0 which is part of ubuntu 18.04, seems like > git clone failure will not auto remove this folder. I notice 2.16.2 > and 2.17.0 release note includes this fix. So just wonder to know if > prior behavior was think of bug, and this fix has change the behavior. > > * "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists > as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly > removed it upon a failure of the operation. Right, the old behavior was considered a bug. Git didn't create the directory, so when rolling back its changes on failure, it shouldn't delete it either. -Peff
