On October 22, 2020 5:27 PM, Adrien Berchet wrote: > > I encountered this behaviour on Linux Mint 20. But I just tried on > RedHatEnterpriseServer 7.6 and I could not reproduce this behaviour. I wonder whether there's something strange about how Mint partitions the disk, and whether /tmp is somehow configured weirdly on your machine. > Le jeu. 22 oct. 2020 à 16:55, Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a > écrit : > > > > > On October 22, 2020 6:28 AM, Adrien Berchet wrote: > > > I encountered a quite weird bug when I tried to clone a repository > > > into the /tmp folder (I just wanted to test something, so I was working in > /tmp). > > > > > > I run the following command in /tmp : > > > git clone ssh://[user]@[host]/project/[project_name] > > > and I got the following error: > > > fatal: the protocol '/tmp/ssh' is not supported > > > > > > I got the same result if a run the following command from /tmp > directory: > > > git clone ssh://[user]@[host]/project/[project_name] > > > /tmp/project_name > > > > > > Nevertheless, the command works in other directories. Even the > > > second command works when run from another directory (this > command: > > > git clone ssh://[user]@[host]/project/[project_name] > /tmp/project_name). > > > > > > It is very specific and can easily be worked around so it is no big > > > deal but I preferred reporting this in case it hides something else. > > > > What platform are you running on? I have experienced similar when /tmp is > linked to a separate file system with complex ACLs.