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Re: url.<base>.insteadOf vs. submodules

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Feb 20, 2017, 09:01 UTC
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<20170220090115.6kfzwl62opj4q7k7@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:12:28PM +0100, Toolforger wrote:
> I am trying to make url.<base>.insteadOf work on the URLs inside
> .gitmodules, but it won't work (applying it to the repo itself works fine,
> to the config setting seems to be fine).

The submodule operations happen in their own processes, and do not look at the config of the parent repo. Are you setting the config in .git/config of the super-project?

I don't know if there plans to make that work, but one workaround is to set the config in ~/.gitconfig.

-Peff
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