From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:59:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Unable to get "pretty" URL aliases working
Message-ID: <7v7hrpvzqa.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B4ABDB5.9000203@uq.edu.au>

Adam Nielsen <adam.nielsen@uq.edu.au> writes:

> I'm attemping to learn Git but I've gotten stuck trying to configure a
> server to host my repositories.
> ...
> [url "ssh://myserver/path/to/repos/"]
>   insteadOf myserver:

url.*.insteadOf is a configuration done on the _client_, i.e. the one that
you run "git clone", "git fetch", "git push", etc. on. 

	$ cat >>$HOME/.gitconfig <<\EOF
        [url "ssh://myserver/path/to/repos/"]
        	insteadOf = myserver://
	EOF
        $ git clone myserver://project.git

In any case, "attempting to learn Git" doesn't mix well with use of
"insteadOf" to me.  If you know /path/to/repos/project.git is what you
want to access, any "attempting to learn Git" person would do more
straight-forward "git clone ssh://myserver/path/to/repos/project.git", or
"git clone myserver:/path/to/repos/project.git" which is even better (it
is shorter to type and is a more natural form to spell ssh transport).

;-)