Christoph Berg <myon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On some git hosting sites [*], if you copy the repository URL, you'll > actually get "git clone some://url" in the cut buffer. When you then > proceed to do "git clone <paste>" in the next terminal window, the > command executed is actually this: > > $ git clone git clone some://url > fatal: Too many arguments. Or $ git git clone some://usr $ git git git diff ;-) I seriously doubt "git" should do anything funky when fed such command lines.