On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > I think it's likely that other properties of the host could show up. I > > suspect that uploadpack and receivepack would be useful host-wide if you > > were using a lot of ad-hoc repository names on a big site. Rewriting the > > URLs is just the itch I had with this scope. > > I'd agree that per-host configuration may be useful, and your > "paths to programs" may be a good example. But I think it is > plausible that a host needs multiple <rewritefrom,rewriteto> > tuples. That's probably true, even taking into account the option of having multiple froms for the same to. > Either your '[host "$this_url"] aka = $that_url' or > Dscho's earlier '[rewrite "$this_url_to"] url = $that_url' shows > that this is not about host but "prefix part of URL". Well, it shows that it's *possible* to do this feature that way, although I'm not entirely convinced that it's best to do it like that. Are there character set concerns with having urls in config keys? -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
