In particular, the url passed to git-clone has an extra '/' given
after the 'file://' schema prefix, thus:
git clone --reference=original "file:///$(pwd)/original one
Once the prefix is removed, the remainder of the url looks something
like "//home/ramsay/git/t/...", which is then interpreted as an
network path. This then results in a "Permission denied" error, like
so:
ramsay $ ls //home
ls: cannot access //home: No such host or network path
ramsay $ ls //home/ramsay
ls: cannot access //home/ramsay: Permission denied
ramsay $
In order to fix the problem, we simply remove the extraneous '/'
character from the url.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>