On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:37:07AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On a git built from the master branch just now: > > $ ./git config remote.origin.url > https://code.google.com/p/git-core/ > $ ./git -c remote.origin.url=git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git > config remote.origin.url > git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git > $ GIT_TRACE=1 ./git -c > remote.origin.url=git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git > fetch 2>&1 | head -n 2 > trace: built-in: git 'fetch' > trace: run_command: 'git-remote-https' 'origin' > 'https://code.google.com/p/git-core/' > > I'd expect this to try to fetch from the remote.origin.url I specified > on the command-line, but for some reason fetch doesn't pick that up. > Isn't this a bug? I think this is an alternate version of the report in [1]. The short answer is: remote.*.url is a multi-valued config option, and you can only append to (not override) such options with "git -c". Try using insteadOf. -Peff [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/250427 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html