On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:45:19AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > 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. I can confirm that this is exactly the reason. -Peff
