Re: Trying to use insteadOf trick to use different SSH keys for separate github accounts - not working

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 16, 2017, 09:48 UTC
Message-ID: <20171216094840.GA32706@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAFTSPUV1E+jCMHzx+rq9Y1agthxcYrzDVY-rThTNCG7BfnPeTg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 07:50:02AM +0000, Asfand Qazi wrote:

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> I found out about the 'insteadOf' setting, and thought it would work.
> So I added this to my global git config:
> 
> [url "git@github.com:MyCompany/"]
> insteadOf = git@work.github.com:MyCompany/
> 
> and left the SSH hostname setting where it was. Then I tried doing:
> 
> git clone git:github.com/MyCompany/la-repo.git
> 
> But it won't work. With GIT_TRACE=2, I get:

If I'm reading it right, you have the config backwards. You want to convert git@github.com from Go's invocation of Git into your special "work" alias. So:

  [url "git@work.github.com:MyCompany/"]
  insteadOf = "git@github.com:MyCompany/"

-Peff