Re: [PATCH 0/5] git-gui: Support for "Locators" - address templates

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 26, 2008, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20080926143351.GY3669@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0809251705260.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, pasky@suse.cz wrote:
> 
> > This patch allows "locators" to be configured and used in the GUI,
> > basically as URL templates the input string is subsituted into.
> 
> Can this be set up to use the "url.<base>.insteadOf" configuration? Part 
> of my goal with that feature was to make it easy for me to reference 
> projects on my work's central repository store. That is, put in your 
> ~/gitconfig:
> 
> [url "git://repo.or.cz/"]
> 	insteadOf = repo:
> 
> And "git clone repo:alt-git" works.

That's a good idea.

When I saw the locator patch come by I thought a bit about the insteadOf idea, but didn't make it far enough to open an email discussion about it.

Pasky?

-- 
Shawn.