refs: improve comments about "reading" argument of "resolve_ref"

diff --git a/builtin-clone.c b/builtin-clone.c
index c0e3086437ced05d1b81d4098e3a4c7c3031b0ee..c8435295cedd920f34a13ec686c73d6b835b28ee 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin-clone.c
+++ b/builtin-clone.c
@@ -147,6 +147,15 @@ static int is_directory(const char *path)
        return !stat(path, &buf) && S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode);
 }
 
+static void strip_trailing_slashes(char *dir)
+{
+       char *end = dir + strlen(dir);
+
+       while (dir < end - 1 && is_dir_sep(end[-1]))
+               end--;
+       *end = '\0';
+}
+
 static void setup_reference(const char *repo)
 {
        const char *ref_git;
@@ -387,7 +396,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
        path = get_repo_path(repo_name, &is_bundle);
        if (path)
-               repo = path;
+               repo = xstrdup(make_nonrelative_path(repo_name));
        else if (!strchr(repo_name, ':'))
                repo = xstrdup(make_absolute_path(repo_name));
        else
@@ -397,6 +406,7 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                dir = xstrdup(argv[1]);
        else
                dir = guess_dir_name(repo_name, is_bundle, option_bare);
+       strip_trailing_slashes(dir);
 
        if (!stat(dir, &buf))
                die("destination directory '%s' already exists.", dir);
@@ -422,10 +432,11 @@ int cmd_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        if (!option_bare) {
                junk_work_tree = work_tree;
                if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(work_tree) < 0)
-                       die("could not create leading directories of '%s'",
-                                       work_tree);
+                       die("could not create leading directories of '%s': %s",
+                                       work_tree, strerror(errno));
                if (mkdir(work_tree, 0755))
-                       die("could not create work tree dir '%s'.", work_tree);
+                       die("could not create work tree dir '%s': %s.",
+                                       work_tree, strerror(errno));
                set_git_work_tree(work_tree);
        }
        junk_git_dir = git_dir;