Re: [Question] Switching the URI from SSH to HTTPS for submodules

>On December 6, 2021 6:54 PM, Robert Coup wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 23:10, <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > git@bitbucket.org:project/module.git
>> >
>> > When in SSH mode, clones are simple with --recurse-submodules doing
>> > what we want. However, we had to clone on a system where SSH was
>> > locked down and we could only use HTTPS. The form of the URIs changed
>> rather radically:
>> >
>> > https://user@bitbucket.org/project/repo.git
>> >
>> > I'm looking for better practices than I used - I'm sure there is at least one.
>>
>> AFAIK the existing `url.<base>.insteadOf` config option[1] deals with this...
>>
>> [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-
>> urlltbasegtinsteadOf
>>
>>     $ git config --global url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf
>> "git@bitbucket.org:"
>>
>> If you don't want to set it globally (not a throwaway CI environment?) then
>> you can do it as a one-off:
>>
>>     $ git -c url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf="git@bitbucket.org:"
>> clone --recurse-submodules git@bitbucket.org:repo/project.git
>>
>> But it isn't persisted into your repo config then, so subsequent fetches won't
>> work. You'd need to persist it using something like:
>>
>>     $ git config url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf
>> "git@bitbucket.org:"
>>     $ git submodule foreach --recursive 'git config
>> url."https://user@bitbucket.org/".insteadOf "git@bitbucket.org:" '
>>
>> Maybe there's an opportunity to make that part easier?
>
>Well, I gave this a shot. The mapping did not appear to work - I tried a few combinations. I was left with the original URIs. Note that I also had to do
>
>$ git submodule init
>
>which reported the wrong URIs
>
>$ git submodule update
>
>which obviously failed since they were still using SSH.
>
>I think there may be something not working correctly with the insteadOf operator. This is easily reproduceable.
>