Re: Fwd: Can't override username of default credential context to have different username in custom context.

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[+cc Kyle, who I forgot on the initial send. Oops!]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 01:25:02AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:19:31PM +0500, Vladislav Kostenko wrote:
> 
> > Here is my scenario:
> > 
> > 1. First I set default username
> > git config --global credential.username myUsername
> > 
> > 2. Then I want to have different username for my other repository
> > git config --global
> > credential.https://myOtherRepository.visualstudio.com.username
> > myOtherUsername
> > 
> > 3. When I try to pull new changes, git asks for password of myUsername
> > Password for 'https://myUsername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx':
> > 
> > But I want to have:
> > Password for 'https://myOtherUsername@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx':
> > 
> > Is there any way to accomplish overriding?
> 
> Only by changing the ordering in the config file, as you noticed.
> 
> The other http.* options will choose the most-specific match, but the
> credential code predates that, and blindly goes in config order. Kyle
> (cc'd) added the urlmatch support for http.*, and might be able to say
> whether it could be adapted for the credential code. If so, then I think
> it would need somebody to volunteer to work on it.
> 
> That would technically be a backwards-incompatible change to switch the
> lookup order at this point in time, but I'm somewhat of the opinion that
> in any case it matters, the new behavior would be a strict improvement.
> 
> -Peff
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