On 20.02.2017 10:01, Jeff King wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:12:28PM +0100, Toolforger wrote:
I am trying to make url.<base>.insteadOf work on the URLs inside
.gitmodules, but it won't work (applying it to the repo itself works fine,
to the config setting seems to be fine).
The submodule operations happen in their own processes, and do not look
at the config of the parent repo.
Ah, then we have a docbug.
git help config has this to say:
url.<base>.insteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to start,
instead, with <base>.
The "Any" here is wrong, it would be "any except submodule" (possibly
other exceptions).
> Are you setting the config in
.git/config of the super-project?
Exactly.
My thinking was that since the submodule URLs are specified in the super
project's .gitmodules, that setting should apply.
I don't know if there plans to make that work,
It would certainly help me out, though I guess it's going to be too late
for my current project :-)
> but one workaround is to set the config in ~/.gitconfig.
No can do - that's under version control.
My personal setup does not belong there I think ;-)
I am currently trying to write a shell script that
- does git submodule init
- pulls submodule configuration out of git config -l
- configures each submodule with insteadOf
It fits with my workflow because setting up the repositories is going to
be done via script anyway.
I'm neither a shell nor a git expert, so any advice still appreciated.
Regards,
Jo