On recent versions of rustup, it attempts to auto-install clippy, which isn't available for that particular nightly:
$ rustup toolchain install nightly-2019-08-05
info: syncing channel updates for 'nightly-2019-08-05-x86_64-apple-darwin'
info: latest update on 2019-08-05, rust version 1.38.0-nightly (d3f8a0b5d 2019-08-04)
error: component 'clippy' for target 'x86_64-apple-darwin' is unavailable for download for channel nightly-2019-08-05
On recent versions of rustup, it attempts to auto-install clippy, which isn't available for that particular nightly:
Adding
--force
causes it to skip clippy: