Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for url aliases in config files

From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 20, 2008, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <76718490802201222y5bbe09d5j541690669a96672f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfxvn4cyh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Feb 20, 2008 2:58 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

Show 18 quoted lines

>
> "Jay Soffian" <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Feb 20, 2008 2:24 PM, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:
> >> This order of values is definitely the right thing, for the mapping
> >> reasons you saw. And I think "aka" is generally used to indicate
> >> additional non-canonical names for something with an official name (see,
> >> for example, IMDB's usage). I haven't been able to come up with anything
> >> better to indicate "this is a name that I will recognize but not use
> >> myself".
> >
> > I think the word you want is "alias", isn't it? I've never really seen
> > aka used in a technical sense, whereas alias is used quite often (URL
> > aliases, DNS aliases, etc). So:
> >
> > url.$canonical_name.alias = $local_name.
>
> Read the first line you quoted, and think again.

Well I'm just not seeing it, but you could you do it just like the [alias] section?

git config url.local canonical

[url]
  local = canonical

git config would have to be extended to deal with a URL on the LHS.