Dear Gits,
I expect .git/config to tae precedence over ~/.gitconfig, which in
turn gets favoured over /etc/gitconfig. This works fine, except for
the url.….insteadOf settings.
Have a look at the following:
% grep madduck: .git/config
url = madduck:pub/puppet/modules/git
% grep -B1 nsteadOf /etc/gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
/etc/gitconfig-[url "git://git.madduck.net/madduck/"]
/etc/gitconfig: insteadOf = madduck:
--
/home/madduck/.gitconfig-[url "ssh://git.madduck.net/madduck/"]
/home/madduck/.gitconfig: insteadOf = madduck:
/home/madduck/.gitconfig: pushInsteadOf = git://git.madduck.net/madduck/
% git push -v
Pushing to git://git.madduck.net/madduck/pub/puppet/modules/git
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
There seem to be two problems:
1. the value from /etc/gitconfig seems to be preferred over the
one from ~/.gitconfig. I think this is due to the fact that the
syntax for URL substitution is a bit whack and the two keys
different, so the merge is actually a union-merge, and then the
result is probably just the first match (git:// sorts before
ssh://).
2. URL substitution is not recursive, or else the git:// URL would
eventually be replaced with the ssh:// URL.
I can address both issues by adding a "pushInsteadOf = madduck:" to
~/.gitconfig, but …
… that only addresses pushing. I don't see a way to fix fetching,
where the pushInsteadOf trick does not work.
Any ideas how to work around it?
Why was the syntax chosen backwards in this way? Why not have
[urlsubst "madduck:"]
replaceWith = ssh://git.madduck.net/madduck/
or even better:
[url_regsubst]
somefreelychosenname = s|madduck:|ssh://git.madduck.net/madduck/|
Thoughts?
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