Re: Feature request - show result of URL rewrites

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Nov 12, 2016, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <1478974642.3227.4.camel@kaarsemaker.net>
In-Reply-To: <284668531.626.1478972994238.JavaMail.root@ichabod>

On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 18:49 +0100, Git User wrote:

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> Hello
> 
> Hopefully this is the right place to submit feature requests - let me
> know if there's somewhere else I should use!
> 
> Git lets you rewrite URLs using "url.<base>.insteadOf"
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/11383587
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config
> 
> Can you add a git-config option to show the result of this rewriting
> whenever this occurs, as debugging more complicated rules can be
> difficult/wasn't obvious without Wireshark.
> 
> E.g. you could have the option 'url.printRewrites [True/False]' which
> would print the line "Rewrote url 'git://github.com/git/git' to 'http
> s://github.com/git/git'" to terminal/stdout  when set to True.

Such a configuration would be superfluous, the GIT_TRACE and GIT_CURL_VERBOSE environment variables already provide all the debugging information you need here.

D.