magit-clone in a tramp directory?

[Tim Visher]

I'm on magit 2.8.0 and when I call magit-clone in a tramp directory, it fails with the following error message:

```

error in process sentinel: Git error: #("could not create leading directories of '/scp:core:/opt/code/db-replicators': Permission denied (in /scp:core:/opt/code/)" 101 104 (tramp-default t))

```

When I call it in a non-tramp directory it works as expected.

Is this the right behavior?

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[Tim Visher]

This would be indicative of a problem with not stripping the magic file name properly but I believe start-file-process should do that for us…

```

$ mkdir -p '/scp:core:/opt/code/db-replicators'

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/scp:core:’: Permission denied

```

[Tim Visher]

The following code works:

```

(let ((default-directory "/scp:core:/opt/code"))

  (start-file-process "clone-directory" "charnock" "git" "clone" "g...@github.com:charnock/stephen.git" "/opt/code/stephen"))

```

but this does not

```

(let ((default-directory "/scp:core:/opt/code"))

  (start-file-process "clone-directory" "charnock" "git" "clone" "g...@github.com:charnock/stephen.git" "/scp:core:/opt/code/stephen"))

```

so I think the problem is that we're not translating that remote target directory name into a local filename.

[Tim Visher]

https://github.com/magit/magit/pull/2806