From ba375acff7692cbca16f7cc2e69b71563188ab7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:46:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make "git clone" a lot more user-friendly

This silently adds the ".git" directory component if needed, so you
don't need to state it explicitly for the source.  Also, it turns the
source into an absolute pathname when local, so that you can use
relative pathnames without losing sight of the source when we cd into
the destination.
---
 git-clone-script | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-clone-script b/git-clone-script
index 4f80ade21c..19697427ec 100755
--- a/git-clone-script
+++ b/git-clone-script
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ usage() {
 	exit 1
 }
 
+get_repo_base() {
+	(cd "$1" && (cd .git ; pwd)) 2> /dev/null
+}
+
 use_local=no
 while
 	case "$#,$1" in
@@ -22,7 +26,15 @@ do
 	shift
 done
 
+# Turn the source into an absolute path if
+# it is local
 repo="$1"
+local=no
+if base=$(get_repo_base "$repo"); then
+	repo="$base"
+	local=yes
+fi
+
 dir="$2"
 mkdir "$dir" &&
 D=$(
@@ -31,8 +43,8 @@ D=$(
 test -d "$D" || usage
 
 # We do local magic only when the user tells us to.
-case "$use_local" in
-yes)
+case "$local,$use_local" in
+yes,yes)
 	( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
 		repo="$repo/.git"
 		( cd "$repo/objects" ) || {
-- 
2.11.4.GIT