On 20.02.2017 21:52, Jeff King wrote:
> I think if there is a doc bug, it is that the repo boundary between the
> submodule and the super-project is not made more clear.
It's not mentioned anywhere I'm aware of, particularly not on the
insteadOf docs.
> That said, I do think it would be a useful feature for the super-project
> to rewrite URLs before handing them off to the submodule. But I do not
> really work on submodules nor use them myself, so there may be
> complications.
Agreed.
> I suppose you could argue that failing to rewrite violates the "any" in
> the quoted text. It doesn't say when the rewriting occurs, but it is
> essentially "when the URL is accessed". So the super-project feeds the
> raw URL to the submodule `git clone`, which then applies any URL
> rewriting.
>>> 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'm not sure I understand. You have a project policy to use certain
> URLs. But you, the user, want to override that. Why isn't the
> user-specific config file the right place to put that?
Ah right, I mistook ~/ for "project root" instead of "home dir".
Sorry for the confusion.
> (I think there _is_ a mismatch, in that the change is specific not just
> to your user, but to the repo. So you would not want to rewrite other
> references to the same URL in other repos.
Indeed, and that's actually a problem.
The setup I'm aiming for is
github -> local bare repo -> local clones with worktrees
If I place insteadOf rules in ~/.gitconfig, I will be unable to pull
from github to my local bare repos.
Mmm... I could try to undo the insteadOf configuration from ~/.gitconfig
in the local bare repos. Not sure whether I have to redirect from the
github URL to itself.
Downside is that I'll have to remember to modify ~/.gitconfig whenever
the upstream project changes its dependencies. Or whenever I want to
reorganize my local project directory structure.
It's not totally out of the window, but right now it does not seem very
attractive to me, and it's certainly not a good solution for everyone.
Regards,
Jo