Re: [RFC] URL rewrite in .gitmodules

> Am 26.10.2015 um 17:34 schrieb Stefan Beller:
>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 20 Oct 2015, at 19:33, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> I do not think this topic is specific to use of submodules.  If you
>>>> want to encourage your engineers to fetch from nearby mirrors you
>>>> maintain, you would want a forest of url.mine.insteadof=theirs for
>>>> the external repositories that matter to you specified by
>>>> everybody's $HOME/.gitconfig, and one way to do so would be to have
>>>> them use the configuration inclusion.  An item in your engineer
>>>> orientation material could tell them to add
>>>> 
>>>>       [include]
>>>>               path = /usr/local/etc/git/mycompany.urlrewrite
>>>> 
>>>> when they set up their "[user] name/email" in there.
>>>> 
>>>> And you can update /usr/local/etc/git/mycompany.urlrewrite as
>>>> needed.
>>> Oh nice, I didn't know about "include". However, as mentioned to Stefan in this thread, I fear that our engineers will miss that. I would prefer a solution that does not need any additional setup. Therefore the suggestion to add rewrites in the .gitmodules file.
>> 
>> How do you distribute new copies of Git to your engineers?
>> Maybe you could ship them a version which has the "include" line
>> already builtin as default? So your distributed copy of Git
>> would not just check the default places for configs, but also
>> some complied in /net/share/mycompany.gitconfig
> 
> Which is just what we do at $DAYJOB, that way you can easily
> distribute all kinds of settings, customizations and hooks
> company-wide.