Re: URL rewrite in local config unable to override global config rule

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 16, 2016, 12:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20160616121353.GB15988@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CABYP2JZU5wqxCK1B7b_fDB0Lqz4-7a_Erb5dHKReZHQecxC8QQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 03:44:17PM +0530, Saksham Saxena wrote:

> Summary : Added a new rule to the local config of a git repo by
> issuing ' git config --local url."https://".insteadOf git:// ', but it
> wasn't observed by git as it kept using "git://".

Hmm. This works in a simple example for me...

> Details : I had set my global config to use "git://" instead of
> "https://", as I prefer working with SSH.

..even if I have an existing "url.git://.insteadOf=https://". But I could believe that having other config confuses things. The url-rewriting is not "last one wins", but rather that we try all of them, and the longest match wins.

Can you show us the output of "git config --list" on a repository that is having this problem, and then the command that you run and its output?

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> Recently, I began writing a
> 'GitHub Wiki' of one of my GitHub projects, and, apparently, those
> Wikis are normal git repositories, and can be cloned and edited
> locally. However, the clone url available is served over HTTPS only,
> and doesn't support any other protocol.

You should be able to clone, fetch, or push wiki repositories using any of the normal protocols. So:

  git@github.com:username/repo.wiki.git

should work. Likewise, git:// will work if the repository is public, but you cannot push over it.

-Peff