Daniel Barkalow wrote:
This allows users with different preferences for access methods to the
same remote repositories to rewrite each other's URLs by pattern
matching across a large set of similiarly set up repositories to each
get the desired access.
For example, if you don't have a kernel.org account, you might want
settings like:
[host "kernel.org"]
base = git://git.kernel.org/pub/
rewritebase = master.kernel.org:/pub
Then, if you give git a URL like:
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git
it will act like you gave it:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git
and you can cut-and-paste pull requests in email without fixing them
by hand, for example.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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So, I may be dense, but I'm having a hard time distinguishing
the names "base" and "rewritebase" just from a User Interface
perspective. It's not clear to me which of those is the A and
which is the B part in s/A/B/. "Rewritebase" might be the "from"
basis, or it might be the "to" basis. Can we come up with more
descriptive property names here?
Is the rewrite always just prefix substitution/replacement?
What if there was some generic path rewrite needed? (KISS? :-))
Also, is "host" really the right config key? Maybe "rewritehost"?
Or is this thought to be the basis of other (perhaps not rewrite
related) properties of the same host as well?
Maybe it's just me.
Thanks,
jdl
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