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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/urls.txt | 23 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index f2f6a774e0..298138917a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -886,6 +886,18 @@ tar.umask:: archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and linkgit:git-archive[1]. +url.<base>.insteadOf:: + Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to + start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a + large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple + access methods, and some users need to use different access + methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the + equivalent URLs and have git automatically rewrite the URL to + the best alternative for the particular user, even for a + never-before-seen repository on the site. The effect of + having multiple `insteadOf` values from different + `<base>` match to an URL is undefined. + user.email:: Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and diff --git a/Documentation/urls.txt b/Documentation/urls.txt index 81ac17f32a..fa34c67471 100644 --- a/Documentation/urls.txt +++ b/Documentation/urls.txt @@ -44,3 +44,26 @@ endif::git-clone[] ifdef::git-clone[] They are equivalent, except the former implies --local option. endif::git-clone[] + + +If there are a large number of similarly-named remote repositories and +you want to use a different format for them (such that the URLs you +use will be rewritten into URLs that work), you can create a +configuration section of the form: + +------------ + [url "<actual url base>"] + insteadOf = <other url base> +------------ + +For example, with this: + +------------ + [url "git://git.host.xz/"] + insteadOf = host.xz:/path/to/ + insteadOf = work: +------------ + +a URL like "work:repo.git" or like "host.xz:/path/to/repo.git" will be +rewritten in any context that takes a URL to be "git://git.host.xz/repo.git". + |