On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 05:01:01PM -0500, Crls wrote: > Ctrl-Z is ignored by git; Git-clone injects blobs even with non-existent > repos > > Steps to reproduce 1- git clone github whateverrepo/whatevernonexistentrepo > or 1- git clone gitlab whateverrepo/whatevernonexistentrepo 2= Git prompts > for a username % git clone github whateverrepo/whatevernonexistentrepo fatal: repository 'github' does not exist I think what you meant was: % git clone https://github.com/whateverrepo/whatevernonexistentrepo Cloning into 'whatevernonexistentrepo'... Username for 'https://github.com': > 3- Press Ctrl-Z to stop *git* from running either on the virtual console/tty > *git* automatically creates blobs with directories and disregards So it's not that Control-Z is being ignored. It's that by the time you see the prompt for "Username for 'https://github.com': ", the directories already exist. Try looking at whatevernonexistentrepo/.git as soon as the prompt shows up. You'll see that the .git directory has been greated. Now, when you type ^Z, the git processes are stopped --- but the objects are created already. Username for 'https://github.com': ^Z [1]+ Stopped git clone https://github.com/whateverrepo/whatevernonexistentrepo % ps aux | grep git tytso 5097 0.0 0.0 9736 4480 pts/0 T 10:41 0:00 git clone https://github.com/wha tytso 5098 0.0 0.0 9736 3992 pts/0 T 10:41 0:00 /usr/lib/git-core/git remote-htt tytso 5099 0.0 0.1 102332 16104 pts/0 T 10:41 0:00 /usr/lib/git-core/git-remote-htt tytso 5140 0.0 0.0 6332 2072 pts/0 S+ 10:43 0:00 grep git The 'T' means that the processes are stopped. > Expected: The same issue does not happen with other non-existent repos e.g., > git clone git.zx2c4/ it returns the message of fatal repo not found So what's going on is that github.com is not returning a non-existent repo error; it's prompting for a username/password, as _if_ the repository exists. That's presumably to prevent disclosing information as to whether or not a private repository exists or not. Once the authentication fails, git will remove the partially created repro, so it's really not a problem in practice. Cheers, - Ted
