From: Sean Barag <sean@xxxxxxxxx> Providing a bad origin name to `git clone` currently reports an 'invalid refspec' error instead of a more explicit message explaining that the `--origin` option was malformed. This behavior dates back to since 8434c2f1 (Build in clone, 2008-04-27). Reintroduce validation for the provided `--origin` option, but notably _don't_ include a multi-level check (e.g. "foo/bar") that was present in the original `git-clone.sh`. `git remote` allows multi-level remote names since at least 46220ca100 (remote.c: Fix overtight refspec validation, 2008-03-20), so that appears to be the desired behavior. Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Helped-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sean Barag <sean@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/clone.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c index 93ccd05b5d..673f7b68c3 100644 --- a/builtin/clone.c +++ b/builtin/clone.c @@ -1011,6 +1011,9 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (!option_origin) option_origin = "origin"; + if (!valid_remote_name(remote_name)) + die(_("'%s' is not a valid remote name"), remote_name); + repo_name = argv[0]; path = get_repo_path(repo_name, &is_bundle); -- gitgitgadget