From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 14:50:17 GMT Subject: RE: [Question] Switching the URI from SSH to HTTPS for submodules Message-ID: <00b901d7eb79$c374f070$4a5ed150$@nexbridge.com> In-Reply-To: On December 6, 2021 6:54 PM, Robert Coup wrote: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 23:10, wrote: > > > > git@bitbucket.org:project/module.git > > > > When in SSH mode, clones are simple with --recurse-submodules doing > > what we want. However, we had to clone on a system where SSH was > > locked down and we could only use HTTPS. The form of the URIs changed > rather radically: > > > > https://user@bitbucket.org/project/repo.git > > > > I'm looking for better practices than I used - I'm sure there is at least one. > > AFAIK the existing `url..insteadOf` config option[1] deals with this... > > [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt- > urlltbasegtinsteadOf > > $ git config --global url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf > "git@bitbucket.org:" > > If you don't want to set it globally (not a throwaway CI environment?) then > you can do it as a one-off: > > $ git -c url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf="git@bitbucket.org:" > clone --recurse-submodules git@bitbucket.org:repo/project.git > > But it isn't persisted into your repo config then, so subsequent fetches won't > work. You'd need to persist it using something like: > > $ git config url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf > "git@bitbucket.org:" > $ git submodule foreach --recursive 'git config > url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf "git@bitbucket.org:" ' > > Maybe there's an opportunity to make that part easier? Well, I gave this a shot. The mapping did not appear to work - I tried a few combinations. I was left with the original URIs. Note that I also had to do $ git submodule init which reported the wrong URIs $ git submodule update which obviously failed since they were still using SSH. I think there may be something not working correctly with the insteadOf operator. This is easily reproduceable. -Randall