Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > A few notes for other people who end up doing this: [this meaning use of insteadOf to redirect public URLs to ssh://git@gitolite URL] > (a) ssh is slower, and the gitolite machine is not as reachable. > > (b) it affects your merge commit message. > > As to (a), yes it's noticeable, but the extra couple of seconds isn't > really that big of a deal. Depending on exactly where you are, though, > you might end up wanting to use https:// to the public servers > instead. > > But (b) actually ends up being annoying, because I don't like my merge > commits to contain references to repositories that aren't actually > available unless you have a kernel.org account. > ... > Which is simple. Just create a .git/hooks/prepare-commit-msg file that contains > > #!/bin/sh > sed -i 's|ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/|git://git.kernel.org/|g' "$1" > > and make it executable, and git will do that commit message editing for you. This should work with any recent versions of Git (1.7.4.2 and upwards), but it still is a workaround. Should we mark it as a feature request in the Git land to record the URL you typed as-is in the builtin/fetch.c::store_updated_refs() function, instead of the one that was rewritten by the insteadOf mechanism? It would probably need an update to "struct remote" to have new fields, to teach remote.c::alias_all_urls() not to overwrite the url[] (and pushurl[] merely for symmetry) fields, to add a field to "struct transport" and teach transport.c::transport_get() to record the original URL in it so that builtin/fetch.c::fetch_refs() can give it to store_updated_refs() instead of the rewritten one. Many tiny changes in a rather deep codepath, but feels fairly a safe change that is isolated and straightforward.
