Hi,
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>
> > 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>
> > ---
>
> 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? :-))
I just tried this:
$ git config rewrite."master.kernel.org:/pub".url \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/
and it worked. IOW, the config will look like this:
[rewrite "master.kernel.org:/pub"]
url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/
So maybe this is easier to grasp?
Ciao,
Dscho
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