Basin Ilya <basinilya@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi. > > I'm trying to make the Cygwin Git understand Mingw-style repo urls: > > git config --global \ > file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf \ > file:///C: > > But this fails with: > > error: invalid key: file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf Understandable. > Manually editing ~/.gitconfig works fine: > > [url "file:///cygdrive/c"] > insteadOf = file:///C: How about spelling what you want to happen on the command line version the same way as your "manual" version? I.e. git config --global \ url.file:///cygdrive/c.insteadOf \ file:///C: notice the lack of "url." in your version.