On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote: > I just upgraded to git 1.5.5, and decided to try out the new > url.<base>.insteadOf config option, to save me typing when pulling from > git.sv.gnu.org (and so that I can type the same url whether I'm at home and can > use git://, or when I'm at work and behind a stupid firewall where I must use > http://). It has a couple of bugs: > > First, it appears to have an off-by-one bug. > > $ git --version > git version 1.5.5 > $ mkdir bison > $ cd bison > $ git init > Initialized empty Git repository in .git/ > $ git config url.http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/.insteadOf gnu: > $ git fetch gnu:bison.git master > fatal: I don't handle protocol 'ttp' > $ git config --unset url.http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/.insteadOf > $ git config --global 'url. http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/.insteadOf' gnu: > $ git fetch gnu:bison.git master > Getting alternates list for http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/bison.git > ... That's weird; I'll check it out. Beats me how I managed to get an off-by-one error on that end of the string. > Second, 'git clone --help' documents that it uses this config option, but it > doesn't: > > $ cd .. > $ rm -Rf bison > $ git clone gnu:bison.git > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/eblake/bison/.git/ > ssh: Could not resolve hostname gnu: no address associated with name > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > fetch-pack from 'gnu:bison.git' failed. The documentation is a bit overly optimistic here. The C version of clone will support it, but we're currently still using the shell version which is the last thing (AFAIK) using the old shell parsing. -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
