On Feb 20, 2008 2:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Feb 20, 2008 2:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This order of values is definitely the right thing, for the mapping > >> reasons you saw. And I think "aka" is generally used to indicate > >> additional non-canonical names for something with an official name (see, > >> for example, IMDB's usage). I haven't been able to come up with anything > >> better to indicate "this is a name that I will recognize but not use > >> myself". > > > > I think the word you want is "alias", isn't it? I've never really seen > > aka used in a technical sense, whereas alias is used quite often (URL > > aliases, DNS aliases, etc). So: > > > > url.$canonical_name.alias = $local_name. > > Read the first line you quoted, and think again. Well I'm just not seeing it, but you could you do it just like the [alias] section? git config url.local canonical [url] local = canonical git config would have to be extended to deal with a URL on the LHS. ? - 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
