From: Jeff King Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:25:02 GMT Subject: Re: Fwd: Can't override username of default credential context to have different username in custom context. Message-ID: <20150428052502.GF24580@peff.net> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 09:19:31PM +0500, Vladislav Kostenko wrote: > Here is my scenario: > > 1. First I set default username > git config --global credential.username myUsername > > 2. Then I want to have different username for my other repository > git config --global > credential.https://myOtherRepository.visualstudio.com.username > myOtherUsername > > 3. When I try to pull new changes, git asks for password of myUsername > Password for 'https://myUsername@myOtherRepository.visualstudio.com': > > But I want to have: > Password for 'https://myOtherUsername@myOtherRepository.visualstudio.com': > > Is there any way to accomplish overriding? Only by changing the ordering in the config file, as you noticed. The other http.* options will choose the most-specific match, but the credential code predates that, and blindly goes in config order. Kyle (cc'd) added the urlmatch support for http.*, and might be able to say whether it could be adapted for the credential code. If so, then I think it would need somebody to volunteer to work on it. That would technically be a backwards-incompatible change to switch the lookup order at this point in time, but I'm somewhat of the opinion that in any case it matters, the new behavior would be a strict improvement. -Peff