From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:35:32 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add support for host aliases in config files Message-ID: <7vy79ghbob.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow writes: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jon Loeliger wrote: > >> Also, is "host" really the right config key? Maybe "rewritehost"? >> Or is this thought to be the basis of other (perhaps not rewrite >> related) properties of the same host as well? > > I think it's likely that other properties of the host could show up. I > suspect that uploadpack and receivepack would be useful host-wide if you > were using a lot of ad-hoc repository names on a big site. Rewriting the > URLs is just the itch I had with this scope. I'd agree that per-host configuration may be useful, and your "paths to programs" may be a good example. But I think it is plausible that a host needs multiple tuples. Either your '[host "$this_url"] aka = $that_url' or Dscho's earlier '[rewrite "$this_url_to"] url = $that_url' shows that this is not about host but "prefix part of URL".