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Bug 373871

Summary:	git clone allows the same project to be created twice
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	John J. Barton <johnjbarton>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.git-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	0.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description John J. Barton

2012-03-10 12:06:35 EST

1.use git-repository to clone https://johnjbarton@github.com/johnjbarton/atopwi.git
2.use git-repository to clone https://johnjbarton@github.com/johnjbarton/atopwi.git

Expected: error atopwi already exists
Actual: two copies of atopwi :-(

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2012-03-19 10:49:27 EDT

This is by design. You can clone the same repo many times. In your case each time you clone 'atowpi', a new top-level folder 'atowpi' will be created. Could you explain what you would expect here?

Comment 2 John J. Barton

2012-03-19 15:21:14 EDT

I expected an error message telling the that the project already exists. This was both my desire in the particular case where I hit the problem and my expectation based on using git on a command line.

There *may* be use cases for duplicate clones, but I think these would need to be very advantageous to overcome the downsides of the current behavior.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 14:40:36 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html